User:Bonnie Hurd Smith

Greetings, Wiki friends,

I've been editing the page on Judith Sargent Murray to make sure the facts are correct and to provide a link to my Judith Sargent Murray Society website where people can find more information, images, a list of the talks I give, and more. I have "known" Judith for over twenty years, and I am currently publishing her letter books, with index, to make the information more available. Her letters range in date from 1765 to 1818, and they are a fascinating and important account of early American history. Already, David McCullough and Cokie Roberts, among others have used my work. (I have four books of her letters out.)

I have also edited the Salem, Mass. page to include information about Salem women's history, which is another subject of mine. Ditto women's history in Boston, Cambridge, and on the North Shore of Boston. I have created a page for the Salem Women's Heritage Trail, which I created in 2000 along with a group of local researchers and museum folks.

To learn more about these and other history-related projects, or to contact me with corrections or suggestions, please contact me though my website at this link. 

The Salem women's history site may be reached here. 

Cheers,

Bonnie