![]() ![]() ![]() Her first book, The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (2006), won the Costume Society of America.s Millia Davenport Publication Award for the best book in the field for that year. She has won the Organization of American Historians' Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in Women's History and the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. Miller is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is director of the public history program there. The book also examines the world of Philadelphia artisans and provides new insights into the world of middle-class crafts people, women, and work during the tumultuous years of our nation's founding. The story she uncovers is a richly textured study of Ross's long and remarkable life, which included three marriages, seven children, and a successful career as a seamstress and upholsterer. ![]() In this program Marla Miller, author of the recently published Betsy Ross and the Making of America, describes how she came to research and write the first scholarly biography of Ross. ![]() We learn of the contributions of the artisans and tradespeople to the Revolution and beyond as we witness them surviving the British occupation, rejoicing in American victory, suffering through yellow fever epidemics, reveling in their status as the. The truth is far less certain and far more interesting. Marla Miller looks closely at Betsy Ross and places her in the context of her Philadelphia. Legend has it that Betsy Ross created the first American flag. ![]()
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