Carol Berkin

We know - and love - the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis' defeat. But our first government was a disaster, and the country was in crisis....

In these moving stories of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity....

By pulling back the curtain on the political, shortsighted, and self-interested intentions of the founding fathers in passing the Bill of Rights, Carol Berkin reveals the inherent weakness....

The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle....

How George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the nation through four major crises and caused the first stirrings of American nationalism....

This talk puts to rest another of the remarkable myths of the American Revolution: that it was an all-male affair. In fact, the politicization of women in the 1760s and 1770s is one of the most striking consequences of the rebellion against British rule....

From the award-winning historian: the remarkable life of "the most beautiful woman of 19th-century Baltimore"....

Most of us know that America's Founding Fathers attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia and drafted the Constitution of the United States. But a lot more happened as well - much of it underreported or misunderstood....