Margaret S. Creighton is an American historian, writer and professor emerita at

Bates College Bates College () is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains of nature p ...

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and ...

. She is the author of many articles, essays and several award-winning books including ''Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870'' (1995), ''The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle'' (2005), ''The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair'' (2016), and with

Lisa Norling Lisa Norling is a U.S. historian noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port citi ...

edited the collection ''Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920'' (1996). Creighton has taught courses at Bates College on the American Civil War, women's and gender history, and historical methods. Additionally, she has taught a course on the cultural history of the Boston Red Sox.

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