Margaret Creighton

Margaret S. Creighton is an American historian, writer, and professor emerita at Bates College in Maine.
She is the author of many articles, essays and several award-winning books including Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870, The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle, The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair, and with Lisa Norling edited the collection Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.
Creighton has taught courses at Bates College on the American Civil War, women's and gender history, and historical methods. Additionally, she has taught a course on the cultural history of the Boston Red Sox.