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Birth
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Bachelor's from Concord University
received her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr with honors in history -
Master’s degree from University of Pennsylvania
Degree in American Civilization -
Doctoral degree from Pennsylvania
Degree in American Civilization -
Married the historian Charles Rosenberg
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Awarded distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania
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Pulitzer Prize history jury
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Pulitzer Prize history jury
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Elected to the Society of American Historians
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Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994
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Awarded distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania
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Won the Francis Parkman Prize with the book Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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Founding Dean of Radcliffe
Founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. -
Pulitzer Prize history jury
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Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004
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28th President of Harvard
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Realeased her newest book ,This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War