Books
Authored and edited volumes in early American, women’s, and public history. Each title links to its publisher.
❧ Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. The work of Anglo-, African-, and Native American women in late-eighteenth-century Hadley, Massachusetts.
❧ Betsy Ross and the Making of America. Henry Holt, 2010; St. Martin’s Griffin paperback. The working upholsterer behind the flag-making legend. Finalist, Cundill Prize in History; a Washington Post Best Book of 2010.
❧ The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution. University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. The skilled needlewomen of the early Republic. Winner of the Millia Davenport Publication Award, Costume Society of America.
❧ Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman. Westview Press, 2013. An independent eighteenth-century gownmaker, recovered from her remarkable diary. Honorable Mention, Harry M. Ward Book Award.
Edited Volumes
❧ Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States (co-edited with Max Page). University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. Fifty writers on the future of preservation in America.
❧ Cultivating a Past: Essays in the History of Hadley, Massachusetts (editor). University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. Essays on the western Massachusetts town at the center of much of this research.
Selected Praise
A beautifully researched, richly textured study of women’s community of labor in the critical half-century after the American Revolution.
Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California, on Entangled Lives
Entangled Lives models an intersectional social history for the twenty-first century: empathetic towards its subjects, yet clear-eyed about overlapping inequalities.
Seth Rockman, Brown University, on Entangled Lives
This is a wonderful book. It exemplifies prodigious research and unusually creative reading.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University, on The Needle’s Eye
