ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am deeply grateful to the many institutions and people who helped me as I wrote this book. I received essential financial support from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Cornell University, and the Dirksen Foundation. I was aided by many archivists and librarians at the Library of Congress and the National Archives, as well as those at Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Massachusetts Historical Society, New York University Library, the New York State Archives, and the Wisconsin State Historical Society.

I would also like to thank the wonderful editorial staff at Cornell University Press. Michael McGandy and Sara Ferguson are fantastically patient and generous editors. I would also like to thank Jamie Fuller for excellent copyediting and Lisa DeBoer for compiling the index.

I owe so much to the teachers who have guided my work over the years: Keith Fitzgerald and Victoria Brown at Grinnell College; Tom Dublin, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Tiffany Patterson at SUNY Binghamton; Joel Silbey, Ed Baptist, Derek Chang, Isaac Kramnick, Mary Beth Norton, Glenn Altschuler, Stewart Blumin, Joan Brumberg, Sherman Cochran, Maria Christina Garcia, Sandra Greene, Larry Moore, Nick Salvatore, and the late Michael Kammen at Cornell.

I am profoundly grateful for my lovely colleagues in the history department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Maureen Flynn, Clif Hood, Derek Linton, John Marks, Susanne McNally, Colby Ristow, Dan Singal, Liz Thornberry, and Lisa Yoshikawa. Our department seminars helped immensely with the books’ development, and I thank all my colleagues for their input. Special thanks go to my colleagues Matt Crow, Will Harris, and Matt Kadane for their insightful contributions to the project. Judy Mahoney also deserves special thanks for her incredibly able editorial assistance and unflagging support. I am indebted to the faculty in the Women’s Studies Program at HWS: Etin Anwar, Betty Bayer, Lara Blanchard, Kathryn Cowles, Anna Creadick, Donna Davenport, May Farnsworth, Karen Frost-Arnold, Jessica Hayes-Conroy, Alla Ivanchikova, Charity Lofthouse, Liliana Leopardi, Michelle Martin-Baron, and Leah Shafer. They are excellent colleagues. The Works-In-Progress Group helped especially with the book’s last chapter. My students Lou Guard and Kathryn Lawton lent their excellent research assistance to the project.

My deepest thanks to those who read and commented on the manuscript, in whole or in part, as it evolved through the years: Jean Baker, Rebecca Edwards, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Martha Solomon Watson, and Judith Wellman. Thanks to the reviewers at the University of Georgia Press and at Cornell University Press who offered excellent suggestions for revision. I am most grateful to Faye Dudden for reading the entire manuscript so thoroughly and for offering such useful suggestions for improvement.

Thanks to the many friends and family who have shouldered some of my burdens and lightened my heart along the way. It most certainly takes a village. Thank you to Grace An, Ryan An, Amy Attima, Sara Barker, Casey Benson, Tre Berney, Carla Bittel, Russ Charif, Irina Chernykov, Alex Chernykov, Garbi Coleman, Robin Coleman, Darren Dale, Chantelle Daniel, Sara Ferguson, Brad Free, Heather Free, Stephen Frug, Scott Grover, Dawn Grover, Aaron Grzywinski, Amelia Habicht, Oliver Habicht, Ginia Harris, Will Harris, Kate Haulman, Shannon Hedtke, Alice Heise, Emily Hopkins, Marshall Hopkins, Beth Howard, Lenore Hoyt, Linda Janke, Carrie Lang, Connie Lew, John Patrick Locklear, Rachel Nottingham Miller, Michelle Mills, Jenna Milner, Monica Murphy, Paul Murphy, Jessica Rice, Dana Roberts, Laura Ward, Leigh Whitaker, David Whitmore, Whitney Wiggins, Linnie Wieselquist, Sarah Wright, Brandon Woll, Sara K. Woll, and H. Roz Woll.

I am beyond grateful to my parents for their unflagging support and love, manuscript reading, and free child care: my father and step-mother Michael Free and Stephanie Haskell Free, my mother Susan Lee, and my parents-in-law Bruce and Ruth Woll. I also am grateful to my late grandmother, Carolyn VanCamp, for reading and editing an early draft of the book.

I owe more than I can say to Arthur Woll. I simply cannot imagine how I would have finished this project without him. I am so thankful to have him in my life. And finally, I wish to thank Lucy Elizabeth Woll for her patience, her peaceful soul, her lively mind, her joyous heart, and her willingness to share her mother with this project.