Ebook {Epub PDF} Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller

MARLA R. MILLER, a historian of early American women and work, has made a career uncovering the lives of women who left little in the way of a documentary record. Her books include Betsy Ross and the Making of America. She is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and directs the Public History program there/5(62). Betsy Ross, as Miller states is, after Abigail Adams, the best known woman of the American Revolution, but there are very few primary sources about her extant (no voluminous correspondence, as with the Adamses), Miller has done painstaking research to be able to reconstruct her life in 18th c. Philadelphia, earning a living as a skilled needlewoman and upholsterer/5(60).  · Betsy Ross and the Making of America. Marla R. Miller. Henry Holt and Company, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 6 Reviews. A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy /5(6).

Get this from a library! Betsy Ross and the making of America. [Marla R Miller] -- Presents a portrait of the iconic Revolutionary War figure that draws on new sources to describe the fabled creation of the first flag while reconstructing her true life behind her seamstress legend. Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller. However, Betsy Ross is still a remarkable figure intertwined with the creation of the American flag, and there are many fascinating facts about her life. The Betsy Ross timeline reviels that she sewed the first flag of the United States in Church, which was her hometown church from the days of her childhood. Betsy Ross and the Making of America. Author Marla R. Miller; ; Author: Marla R. Miller. Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: Category: Biography Autobiography Page: View: Download Now.

Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated patriots, little had been known until now about the woman behind the flag. Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creator of "the first flag", Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. But in "Betsy Ross and the Making of America," the first full-length biography of this beloved figure from the Revolutionary era, University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor Marla R. Miller shows that Ross' role in creating the original Stars and Stripes, a story ha. This is an amazing book and a fine read. Betsy Ross, as Miller states is, after Abigail Adams, the best known woman of the American Revolution, but there are very few primary sources about her extant (no voluminous correspondence, as with the Adamses), Miller has done painstaking research to be able to reconstruct her life in 18th c. Philadelphia, earning a living as a skilled needlewoman and.