women in the eighteenth century – History in the Margins

Talking About Women’s History: A Whole Bunch of Questions with Vanessa Riley

By Pamela | March 28, 2024 |

Honored as the 2023 Georgia Literary Fiction Author of the Year, Vanessa Riley is an acclaimed author known for captivating novels like Island Queen, which is based on the true story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies, and Queen of…

Talking About Women’s History: Two Questions and an Answer with Carol Berkin

By Pamela | March 22, 2023 |

Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, of Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received her B.A. from Barnard College and her PhD from Columbia University where her dissertation received the Bancroft Award in 1972. She has written extensively on women’s history and on the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution,…