Miriam Cohen is Evalyn Clark Professor of History in the Department of Women's Studies at Vassar College. Her book, Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City (1993, Cornell University Press) was a finalist for the Thomas Znaniecki Prize of the American Sociological Association. Her specialties include the history of American women and the history of twentieth-century social reform. She has published numerous articles on the history of social welfare, including "Reconsidering Schooling and the American Welfare State," which was selected as one of the most important articles published by the History of Education Quarterly in its first fifty years. Miriam was also a senior advisory editor of the Encyclopedia of Women in American History (M.E. Sharpe, 2002).

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• Lives of American Women , Series Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , Childhood and Education at Vassar: Old Traditions and New Paths , “J. Lathrop’s Here!” Single Womanhood and a New Life at Hull House , Social Research and Progressive Government , Juvenile Justice, Immigrant Aid , “Chief” , Saving Children, Helping Mothers , The Making of the Maternity and Infancy Act, 1921 , Retirement and Keeping On , Conclusion , Primary Sources , Study Questions

Miriam Cohen is Evalyn Clark Professor of History in the Department of Women's Studies at Vassar College. Her book, Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City (1993, Cornell University Press) was a finalist for the Thomas Znaniecki Prize of the American Sociological Association. Her specialties include the history of American women and the history of twentieth-century social reform. She has published numerous articles on the history of social welfare, including "Reconsidering Schooling and the American Welfare State," which was selected as one of the most important articles published by the History of Education Quarterly in its first fifty years. Miriam was also a senior advisory editor of the Encyclopedia of Women in American History (M.E. Sharpe, 2002).

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• Lives of American Women , Series Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , Childhood and Education at Vassar: Old Traditions and New Paths , “J. Lathrop’s Here!” Single Womanhood and a New Life at Hull House , Social Research and Progressive Government , Juvenile Justice, Immigrant Aid , “Chief” , Saving Children, Helping Mothers , The Making of the Maternity and Infancy Act, 1921 , Retirement and Keeping On , Conclusion , Primary Sources , Study Questions