The Daughters of Liberty was known as the formal female association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act,and later the Townshend Acts,and was a general term for women who identified themselves as fighting for liberty during the American Revolution.
Joy Harjo is an American poet,musician,playwright,and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate,the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts,completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976,and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
Mary Beth Norton is an American historian,specializing in American colonial history and well known for her work on women's history and the Salem witch trials. She is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emeritus of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University. Norton served as president of the American Historical Association in 2018. She is a recipient of the Ambassador Book Award in American Studies for In the Devil's Snare:The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Norton received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Michigan (1964). The next year she completed a Master of Arts,going on to receive her Ph.D. in 1969 at Harvard University. She identifies as a Democrat and she considers herself a Methodist. Mary Beth Norton is a pioneer of women historians not only in the United States but also in the whole world,as she was the first woman to get a job in the department of history at Cornell University.
Pauline Alice Maier was a revisionist historian of the American Revolution,whose work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. She was the William R. Kenan,Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
James Hart Merrell is a Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History Emeritus at Vassar College. Merrell is primarily a scholar of early American history,and has written extensively on Native American history during the colonial era. He is one of only five historians to be awarded the Bancroft Prize twice.
Don Higginbotham was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History and Peace,War,and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading scholar of George Washington,he was a pioneering practitioner of the “new”military history and an expert on colonial and revolutionary America and the early national United States. He served twice as visiting professor of history at the United States Military Academy.
Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen is a Finnish historian who has been the Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford since 2012. He was formerly in the history department at University of California,Santa Barbara.
John Tabb DuVal is an American academic and a translator of Old French,Modern French,Italian,Romanesco,and Italian. He has been a professor of English and Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas since 1982.
Timothy H. Breen is an American Professor,writer,and an expert on the colonial history of the United States.
Jane Kamensky,an American historian,is a professor emerita of history at Harvard University. In 2023 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation,announced Kamensky would assume the Presidency of the Foundation in January,2024.
Mrinalini Sinha is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor in the Departments of English and Women's Studies of the University of Michigan. She writes on various aspects of the political history of colonial India,with a focus on anti-colonialism and on gender. She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies,2014–2015]]. She is the recipient of the 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has served,and continues to serve,on the editorial board of several academic journals,including the American Historical Review,Past and Present,Gender and History,Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History,Indian Economic and Social History Review,and History of the Present.
Sucheng Chan is a Chinese-American author,historian,scholar,and professor. She established the first full-fledged autonomous Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and was the first Asian American woman in the University of California system to hold the title of provost.
Suzanne M. Desan is an American historian. She is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,and the author or editor of four books on French history.
Kathleen M. Brown is an American historian specializing in early American and Atlantic history,the history of comparative race,gender,and sex,and the history of abolition and human rights. She is currently the David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
James Willing (1750–1801) was a representative of the American Continental Congress who led a 1778 military expedition during the American Revolutionary War. Known as the Willing Expedition,the effort involved raiding British forts,plantations,and other properties of loyalists in the colonial British West Florida settlement of Natchez. Later that year,he sought protection from the British by hiding out in New Orleans,but was taken prisoner by them on his attempt to return to Philadelphia.
Jane Gilmer Landers is an historian of colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World who specializes in the history of Africans and their descendants. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University,director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies,and former associate dean of the college of arts &science.
Holly Brewer,is a legal historian. Since 2011,she has been Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland,College Park. Before that,she was Assistant,Associate,and Full Professor of History at NC State in Raleigh,NC. She is also the director of the Slavery,Law,and Power project,an effort dedicated to bringing the many disparate sources that help to explain the long history of slavery and its connection to struggles over power in early America,particularly in the colonies that would become the United States.
Independence Lost:Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution is a 2015 nonfiction book by American historian Kathleen DuVal. Focusing on the effects of the American Revolution on the frontiers of Spanish Louisiana and British West Florida,Independence Lost incorporates biographies of eight individual historical figures alongside more general analysis of the Gulf Coast during the 18th and early 19th centuries. While the first part of the book serves as introductions for each of the historical figures featured throughout the work,later parts thread together each individual's story. The narrative details the Spanish entrance into the war against Great Britain,culminating in the Siege of Pensacola and the Spanish annexation of Florida in the Treaty of Paris.
The Rediscovery of America:Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History is a 2023 book by historian Ned Blackhawk published by Yale University Press. The book depicts the central role of Native Americans in the formation and development of the United States,a role which Blackhawk argues has been minimized or overlooked in the prevailing narrative of American history.
