Sarah Pruitt - Breaking History

S ARAH PRUITT HAS BEEN A FREQUENT CONTRIBUTOR to History.com, the website for the HISTORY, for more than ten years, including the History in the Headlines, Ask History, History Lists, and This Day in History features. She has a BA in history and a certificate in American Studies from Princeton University, and a masters degree in Spanish language and literature from Middlebury College. She lives in New Hampshire.

T HANKS TO KEITH WALLMAN FOR BRINGING THIS project to me, and shepherding it through much of the writing, editing, and production process. Im also grateful to Rick Rinehart for guiding the book the rest of the way, and to everyone else at Globe Pequot/Lyons Press, including Stephanie Scott, Sally Rinehart, Melissa Hayes, Jessica Kastner, and Caroline McManus.

Many thanks as well to Kathleen Williams, Carrie Knoblock, Laura Schumm, Barbara Maranzani, Christine Tancinco, Christopher Klein, and the other colleagues Ive worked with at A+E Networks and HISTORY over the years.

Most of all, I owe thanks to Bert and Amelia, for being the most excellent sources of distraction I could imagine.

HISTORY would like to thank Paul Cabana, Kim Gilmore, Margeaux McAvoy, and Monique Williams for their roles in seeing this book through to production.

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