Marie Jenkins Schwartz is an independent author and historian who writes about American women, families, and slavery. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other awards, including the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize for Best Book in Southern Women’s History given by the Southern Association for Women Historians. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and currently holds the position of professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island, where she taught for more than twenty years. Schwartz enjoys speaking about her books and her approach to research and writing. Recently, she has engaged audiences at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Ocean State Writing Conference at the University of Rhode Island, the David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, PA, and the National Archives in Washington, DC.
