Marla R. Miller is an associate professor of history and the director of the public history program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has won the Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in Women's History from the Organization of American Historians and the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. In 2009, Miller was awarded the Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship from the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. Dana Green is a talented theater, film, and TV actor. Her books on tape narrations include Join the Club by Tina Rosenberg and Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla Miller.
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Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutio... SEE MORE