Sarah Pearsall
Sarah Pearsall | |
|---|---|
Pearsall in 2021 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History of North America |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Sarah Marjorie Savage Pearsall is an American historian specialized in the history of North America between c. 1500 and c. 1800.
She is a professor and director of undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.[1]
Life
Pearsall completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University.[1] Her 2001 dissertation was titled After All These Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815.[2] Her doctoral advisor was Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.[3][2]
Pearsall is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1] She was co-editor of The Historical Journal.[1]
Selected works
- Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2008). Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953299-5.[4]
- Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2019). Polygamy: An Early American History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22684-3.
- Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2022). Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-753317-8.
- Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, Knopf Doubleday, 2026 [5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Sarah Pearsall". Johns Hopkins University. July 20, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ a b Pearsall, Sarah Marjorie Savage (2001). After All These Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815 (Ph.D. thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 62531070.
- ^ Thorn, Annie (September 16, 2019). "The Author's Corner with Sarah Pearsall". Current. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ Reviews of Atlantic Families:
- Vidal, Cécile (2010). "Review". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 65 (6): 1554–1556. doi:10.1017/S0395264900037951. ISSN 0395-2649. JSTOR 25782945. S2CID 166205494.
- Dresser, Madge (2012). "Families, Culture, and the British Atlantic". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 46 (1): 143–146. doi:10.1353/ecs.2012.0074. ISSN 0013-2586. JSTOR 23272380. S2CID 161848255.
- Towsey, Mark (2011). "An Empire of Print". The Historical Journal. 54 (4): 1169–1184. doi:10.1017/S0018246X11000434. ISSN 0018-246X. JSTOR 41349637. S2CID 163269666.
- Zacek, Natalie (2010). "Review". The English Historical Review. 125 (513): 455–457. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceq039. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 25640045.
- Conger, Vivian Bruce (2011). "Review". The American Historical Review. 116 (1): 147. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.1.147. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 23307575.
- Ditz, Toby L. (2012). "Review". Journal of Social History. 46 (1): 239–240. doi:10.1093/jsh/shs010. ISSN 0022-4529. JSTOR 41678988.
- Geiter, Mary K. (2010). "Review". History: The Journal of the Historical Association. 95 (4 (320)): 480–481. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2010.00496_4.x. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 24428920.
- ^ Meacham, Jon (May 26, 2026). "The American Revolution Was Also Fought in India and Spain". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 17, 2026.