Carol Berkin
Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College & the Graduate Center,CUNY. She is the author of several books, including A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution ; Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence; Civil War Wives; Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte; The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties; and most recently, A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism. Berkin is a frequent contributor to PBS and History Channel television documentaries and edits the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s online journal, History Now.