Carol Berkin
{{short description|American historian and writer}}
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Columbia University
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Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Carol Ruth Berkin (born October 1, 1942){{Cite web |title=Berkin, Carol 1942- (Carol Ruth Berkin) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/berkin-carol-1942-carol-ruth-berkin |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=Encyclopedia.com}} is an American historian and author specializing in women's role in American colonial history.{{cite web|author=Independence Hall Association |url=http://www.ushistory.org/us/historians/berkin.asp |title=Carol Berkin |publisher=Ushistory.org |date=April 6, 1999 |access-date=December 18, 2016}}
Biography
She was born in Mobile, Alabama. She is divorced with two children.{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/berkin-carol-1942-carol-ruth-berkin |title=Berkin, Carol 1942- (Carol Ruth Berkin) – Dictionary definition of Berkin, Carol 1942- (Carol Ruth Berkin) | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=December 18, 2016}} She graduated from Barnard College in 1964 and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She taught at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History at the City University of New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/57710/carol-berkin |title=Carol Berkin |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=December 18, 2016}}
She has worked as a historical commentator for several television documentaries, most notably PBS's Dolley Madison: America’s First Lady.{{cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/campusstories/facultyspotlight/carol_berkin.html|title=Carol Berkin: Historys Advocate – Campus Stories – Baruch College}}
Awards
Berkin has received the Bancroft Dissertation Award from the Bancroft Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/cberkin.htm|title=Carol Berkin – The Department of History – Weissman School of Arts and Sciences – Baruch College}} and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Selected works
- {{cite book|title= Jonathan Sewall; odyssey of an American loyalist|publisher= Columbia University Press|date= 1974|isbn= 0231038518|oclc= 947967|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/jonathansewallod00berk}}
- {{cite book|title=Making America: A History of the United States|publisher=Houghton Mifflin |date= 1995|isbn= 0395714370 |oclc= 32065166}}
- {{cite book|title=First Generations: Women in Colonial America|publisher= Hill and Wang|date=1996 |isbn=0809045613 |oclc=34354867 }}
- {{cite book |title=A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution |publisher=Harcourt |date=2002 |isbn=0151009481 |oclc=49663906 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/brilliantsolutio00berk }}
- {{cite book|title=Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence}}
- {{cite book|title=Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant|publisher= Alfred A. Knopf|date=2009|isbn= 9781400044467 |oclc= 335678795}}
- {{cite book|title=Wondrous Beauty: Betsy Bonaparte, the Belle of Baltimore Who Married Napoleon's Brother|publisher= Alfred A. Knopf|date= 2014|isbn= 9780307592781|oclc=842323047}} Wondrous Beauty was reviewed in the New York Times.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/books/review/wondrous-beauty-by-carol-berkin.html|title='Wondrous Beauty,' by Carol Berkin|first=Sara|last=Wheeler|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 7, 2014}}
- A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism (2017)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/History/Faculty-Bios/Carol-Berkin}}
- {{Official website|http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/cberkin.htm}}
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075413/bio IMDB.com entry]
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Category:American women historians
Category:Barnard College alumni
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Writers from Mobile, Alabama
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American women writers
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