Margaret Creighton
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Margaret S. Creighton is a well-known American historian, writer and professor at Bates College in Maine.
Creighton received a Ph. D. in history from Boston University and a B.A. from Indiana University. She is the author of many articles, essays and several popular books including "The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle"(2005), "Rites and Passages" (2006), and "Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920." Creighton currently teaches United States history, women's studies and African-American studies classes on topics ranging from the American Civil War and American West to the Boston Red Sox.
