Carol Berkin is a graduate of Barnard College, and was awarded a Masters and Ph. D. from Columbia University. She awarded the Bancroft Award for Outstanding Dissertation. She is the Presidential Professor of History, Emerita- Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of NY. She has served in positions of academic leadership from the mid-1980s through 2012. Carol Berkin last appeared on The Advocates on April 20, 2011, when she discussed "Women in the Civil War."
Her publications include the following books:
Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Nominated, Pulitzer Prize
Women of America: A History (ed. with Mary Beth Norton). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
Women, War and Revolution (ed. with Clara M. Lovett).New York: Holmes Meier, 1980.
First Generations: Women in Colonial America . New York: Hill and Wang, l996.
Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History.(ed. with Leslie Horowitz) Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution New York: Harcourt 2002 [A History Book Club Selection, 2002; Awarded the Colonial Dames of America Book Prize, 2004; Polish Language edition, 2004; Chinese Language edition, 2004]
Looking Forward/Looking Back: A Women’s Studies Reader. [ed. with Carole Appel and Judith Pinch.] Prentice Hall, 2005
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence. Knopf, February 2005. Polish Language edition, 2005
Clio in the Classroom: A Guide to Teaching Women’s History [ed. with Margaret Crocco and Barbara Winslow], Oxford University Press, Jan. 2009
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant [Knopf, 2009] Awarded the Colonial Dames of America Book Prize, 2010
Wondrous Beauty: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte. Knopf, 2014
The Bill of Rights: The Struggle to Secure America’s Liberties [Simon & Schuster, May 2015]
The Republic in Peril: The First Decade Under the Constitution. Under Contract with Basic Books.
Aside from numerous articles focusing on the American Revolution, and women in American History and their influence, she has been on a commentator and a consultant on media presentations, from the News Hour with Jim Lehrer to PBS productions on Ben Franklin, the American Presidency, The History of NY, The Abolitionists, to various productions on the History Channel, including: The Founding Brothers, The Founding Fathers, and The Duel. She has also appeared on A& E, The Learning Channel, The Swedish Broadcasting Company, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and Court TV.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS
Barnard Scholar, 1960-1964
President’s Fellow, Columbia University, 1967
Bancroft Dissertation Award, 1972
CUNY New Faculty Research Award, 1972
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant, 1973
CUNY Summer Research Grant, 1974
American Council of Learned Societies, Research Grant, 1976
Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1976
American Council of Learned Societies, Study Fellowship, 1978
Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1978
Elected to Membership, Society of American Historians, 1996
President's Excellence Award for Scholarship, Baruch College, 199
Colonial Dames of America Book Prize, 2004
Elected to Membership, Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society, 2005
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