Martha Saxton

Life

Publications

Books

• The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington.,
• Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.,
• Interpretations of American History with Frank Couvares, Free Press, Spring 2000.
• Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography .,
• Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties .,

  Essays, reviews, and other

• "Lives of Missouri Slave Women: A Critique of true Womanhood," in eds. Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen, Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History, Columbia U. Press, 2007.
• "Curing Gender Amnesia," Women's Review of Books 24.1 : 24.
• "Masquerade: the Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier," by Alfred Young, in The William and Mary Quarterly, forthcoming.
• "River Gods-and Goddesses. Women's Review of Books 21.9 : 10.
• "Neither Lady Nor Slave," The S.C. Historical Magazinheae, October 2004.
• "La Formazione degli Stati Uniti," Journal of American History, February, 2004.
• "Sexism and the City," Journal of Urban History, January, 2003.
• "Examining our Revolutionary Baggage," Reviews in American History, December, 2000
• "The Moral Minority, Prescriptive Literature in Early St. Louis," Gateway-Heritage, The Quarterly Magazine of the Missouri Historical Society : 18–31.
• "Women Without Rights," in Not for Ourselves Alone, ed. by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, 52–57.
• "Puritan Women: The Seeds of a Critical Tradition," History Today, 44.10 : 28–33.
• "Civil War Nurses," in The Face of Mercy, A Photographic History of Medicine at War, ed. by Matthew Naythons, and William Styron.

  Awards and honors

• Whiting Travel Fellowship, 2012
• Cullman Fellow, New York Public LIbrary, 2007–2008
• Doshisha Lecturer, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
• Miner D. Crary Award, Amherst College
• Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe College
• Mellon Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia
• Lane Cooper Award, Columbia
• Mary Ellen Shimke Award, Wellesley College
• Presidential Fellow, Columbia
• Boston Globe Annual Award for Louisa May Alcott

  Scholarly and professional activities

• Member, Authors' Guild
• Member, PEN, Secretary of PEN Executive Board, 1986-1989
• Member, PEN/Martha Albrand Award Committee, 1992
• Member, Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, 1996
• Member, Julia Spruill Prize Committee, 1999
• Member, Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee, AHA, 2005-6
• Co-founder and co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2006