Carol Berkin, Author . Harcourt $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100948-0
For the newly independent United States, the years just after the Revolution were the best of times and the worst of times: though the states celebrated their newfound freedom, they did not have a strong central government that would bind them...
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Carol Berkin, Author . Knopf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4163-3
Confronting "the gender amnesia that surrounds the American Revolution," historian Berkin (A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
) offers a lively account of women's various roles in the long, bloody conflict. Early...
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Carol Berkin, Author . Knopf $27.95 (361p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4446-7
The wives of abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, Confederacy president Jefferson Davis and Union commander Ulysses S. Grant don't fit comfortably between one book's covers. Though they lived during roughly the same period, they differed in...
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Carol Berkin. Knopf, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-59278-1
Ambitious, tenacious, calculating, and intent on building a family empire—teenaged Betsy Patterson shared these traits with her brother-in-law, Napoleon Bonaparte, even as he disavowed her marriage to his underage younger brother, Jerome, and left...
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Carol Berkin. Simon & Schuster, $27.50 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4379-0
Berkin (Wondrous Beauty), a professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, provides a narrative history of two critical constitutional moments in American history: the introduction and adoption by the first federal Congress of...
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Carol Berkin. Basic, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-06088-7
In this distinctive new interpretation of the events of the 1790s, Berkin (The Bill of Rights), professor emerita of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, portrays the decade not as the era that inaugurated American party politics...
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Carol Berkin, Author, Eric Foner, Editor Hill & Wang $23 (234p) ISBN 978-0-8090-4561-7
This academic study by Berkin (Women of America: A History), a history professor at Baruch College in New York City, examines the lives of 17th- and 18th-century women from a feminist perspective that focuses on gender and class. Employing excellent
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