Carol Berkin is Professor of History at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center. She is an expert on the subject of women's history in colonial American. She has written widely on the subject in several books including "First Generations -- Women in Colonial American," "Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History" and "Women, War and Revolution." Through her research, Professor Berkin has brought vivid portraits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women as active participants in the creation of their societies.