Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller

She has won the Organization of American Historians' Lerner- Scott Prize for the best dissertation in Women's History and the 1998 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. She is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and directs the Public History program there. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. MILLER, a historian of early American women and work, has made a career uncovering the lives of women who left little in the way of a documentary record. Buy Betsy Ross and the Making of America By Marla R. Miller pieces together the fascinating life of this little-known and much beloved figure, showing that she is important to our history not just because she made a flag, but because she embraced the resistance movement with vigor, reveled in its triumphs, and suffered its consequences. Miller, who teaches American history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, believes that Claypoole planted the seeds of her own mythology in the 1820s and ’30s as she regaled. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the comprehensive biography of one of Americas most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Miller recovers for the first time the full story of Betsy Ross, sharing the woman as she truly was. Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of Americas most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Perhaps with one snip of her scissors she convinced the nation's future first president that five-pointed stars suited better than six. This history of the ordinary craftspeople of the Revolutionary War and their most famous representative will be the definitive volume for years to come.Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross' life. This authoritative work provides a close look at the famous seamstress while shedding new light on the lives of the artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its tools, ships, and homes.īetsy Ross occupies a sacred place in the American consciousness, and Miller's winning narrative finally does her justice.

Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creation of 'the first flag,' Marla R. 'Betsy Ross and the Making of America' is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War.

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Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller