Simmons College

Department Chair, Laurie Crumpacker specializes in U.S. history and literature, especially women's history. She teaches courses on Women in American History, and seminars on Nineteenth-Century US History, Colonial and Native American History, and Women and Power in American History from 1785 to 1890. She was a consultant on Boston's Women's Heritage Train and on the exhibit in Boston's Old South Meetinghouse. Her most recent book is a two volume collection entitled Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women.