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Carol Berkin, Professor of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY,
was born in Mobile, Alabama and educated in New York City. She received her
A.B. degree from Barnard College and her M.A. and PHD from Columbia University.
Her dissertation won the Bancroft Award, and her first book, Jonathan
Sewall: Odyssey of An American Loyalist, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the
author of Women of America: A History (edited with Mary Beth Norton); Women, War and Revolution (edited
with Clara M. Lovett) First Generations: Women in Colonial America, and Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the
American Constitution, and the forthcoming America's Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for Independence. She has also published two secondary school American History textbooks and a college textbook, Making America
Professor Berkin has been the recipient of fellowships
from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association of
University Women, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American
Antiquarian Society as well as receiving the President's Award for Excellence
in Scholarship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Baruch College. She is
currently on the Board of Directors of the Staten Island Historical Society and
is a member of the advisory board for the Museum of American Women. Because of a firm commitment to
educational issues as well as scholarly research, Carol Berkin has served on
the U.S. Department of Education's History Framework Committee for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress and has directed summer institutes for high
school and college teachers on integrating women's
history and social history into the curriculum for the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the DeWitt Wallace Foundation, the New York Council for the
Humanities, and the National Constitution Center. In addition, she has appeared in several television documentary
series, including the PBS programs, "Liberty! The American
Revolution," 'Benjamin Franklin', 'New York', and 'The Scottsboro Boys,'
and the History ChannelŐs "History of Sex," "The Founding
Fathers", and 'Founding Brothers.'
Carol Berkin considers
her most significant and challenging activity to be her two favorite
works-in-progress, her daughter Hannah, a graduate of Vassar College and her
son Matthew, a sophomore at Connecticut College.
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