- Has a daughter Josephine.
- Member of the Julia Spruill Prize Committee, 1999 (Southern Association for Women's Historians).
- Member of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, 1996 (Southern Association for Women's Historians).
- Co-founder and co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2006.
- Member of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award Committee, 1992.
- Member of PEN, Secretary of PEN Executive Board, 1986-1989.
- Member of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee, AHA, 2005-6.
- Member of the Authors' Guild.
- She graduated from Columbia University and the University of Chicago.
- Her parents worked in the publishing industry.
- Received the Whiting Travel Fellowship in 2012.
- From 2007-2008 she was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.
- In 2006 she was a Doshisha Lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.
- Honored with the Presidential Fellow from Columbia (1985-88).
- Given the Mary Ellen Shimke Award by Wellesley College (1986-1987).
- Named a Mellon Fellow by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia (1988-1990).
- Received the Lane Cooper Award from Columbia (1987-1988).
- Recipient of the Boston Globe Annual Award for Louisa May Alcott (1977).
- Was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College (1995-1996).
- Received the Miner D. Crary Award from Amherst College (2000-2001).
- Taught at Amherst College and Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction.
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