Barbara Clark Smith

I am an internationally known scholar and public historian specializing in the field of early America. I earned my PhD at Yale, working on the American Revolution under the amazing Edmund S. Morgan. My publications include scholarly works, as The Freedoms We Lost, published by the New Press in 2011) and essays in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, and other venues. I have produced museum exhibitions at the National Museum of American History and elsewhere, ranging from everyday life "After The Revolution" (1985) through more recent exhibits of "American Democracy" (2017) and "Upending 1620," which treated the Wampanoag engagement with English newcomers called Pilgrims in that year (2020). I have presented the findings of scholarship to a public readership in museum catalogs, a handbook for the National Park Service's Freedom Trail, and various op-eds and occasional publications.