Marla R MillerMARLA R. MILLER, a historian of early American women and work, has made a career uncovering the lives of women who left little in the way of a documentary record. Her books include Betsy Ross and the Making of America. She is a Professor of Hitory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and directs the Public History program there. She has won the Organization of American Historians' Lerner- Scott Prize for the best dissertation in Women's History and the 1998 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. Read More Read Less