Margaret Creighton
Margaret S. Creighton is an American historian, writer and professor emeritus at Bates College in Maine.
She is the author of many articles, essays and several popular books including Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870, The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle, The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair, and with Lisa Norling edited the collection Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.
Creighton taught courses on the American Civil War, regional history, women's history, and historical methods. Additionally, she has taught a course on the cultural history of the Boston Red Sox.
