My guest is Professor Carol Berkin. Carol Berkin is the Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books, including First Generations: Women in Colonial America; A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution; Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence; and, most recently, Civil War Wives: the Life and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.

 


She is a frequent contributor to PBS and History Channel television documentaries on early American and Revolutionary Era history and serves on the boards of several professional organizations including The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the National Council for History Education. She received her BA from Barnard College, her MA and PhD from Columbia University, and was awarded the Bancroft Dissertation

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