Sarah Marjorie Savage Pearsall is an American historian specialized in the

history of North America The History of North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America. While it was commonly accepted that the continent first became inhabited by humans when individuals migrated across the Beri ...

between 1500 and c. 1800. She is a professor and director of undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is the college of arts and sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, a private university in Baltimore, Maryland. The school is based on the university's Homewood campus and, together with the Whiting Sc ...

. Pearsall completed a Ph.D. at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. Her 2001 dissertation was titled ''After All These Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815''. Her doctoral advisor was

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to ...

. Pearsall is a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the H ...

. She was co-editor of ''

The Historical Journal ''The Historical Journal'', formerly known as ''The Cambridge Historical Journal'', is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It publishes approximately thirty-five articles per year on all aspects of British, E ...

''.

Selected works

* Reviews of ''Atlantic Families'': * * * * * * * * *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pearsall, Sarah Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American historians Historians of the United States Historians of the American Revolution American women historians Harvard University alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty 21st-century American women writers Fellows of the Royal Historical Society