Carol Berkin
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- Actress
Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and
Ph.D. from Columbia University where she won the Bancroft Dissertation
Award. She is professor of history at Baruch College and deputy chair
of the department of history at the Graduate Center. She teaches early
American and women's history. Her publications include: Jonathan
Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist (1974); Women of America: A
History (1980); First Generations: Women of Colonial America (1996);
and Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History
(1998). Carol Berkin has worked as a consultant on several PBS and
History Channel documentaries, including, _Crime Stories: The Scottsboro Boys (1998) (TV)_, which was nominated
for an Academy Award as the best documentary of 2000. She has also
appeared as a commentator on screen in the PBS series by Ric Burns
, _"New York: A Documentary Film" (1999) (mini)_ and in the A&E series, Founding Fathers (2000) and "The Tartan Apple: the
Scots in New York City" (2003) (TV)_.
