Public History & Media

How do we communicate serious historical thinking beyond the institutions in which historians are trained?

My public work brings historical scholarship to broad audiences without sacrificing complexity, uncertainty, or argument. I want people not only to encounter the past, but to see how historical knowledge is made, and to become more thoughtful interpreters of it themselves.

Follow my public history work @drcarolinehackett

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Featured in Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan profiled me alongside a new generation of scholars bringing academic expertise to broad public audiences. The piece highlighted my research on women, property, and power in revolutionary France, and my use of public history to challenge one dimensional narratives about women in the past.

"Why have we rewritten women from history as one-dimensional victims, when in fact many women owned property and made their own decisions? Women are not just one thing."

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Speaking, Media, and Collaboration

I’m available for interviews, podcasts, lectures, panels, educational programs, and select media and public history collaborations.

History & Research

Women, power, property, and economic life

Business and legal history

Revolutionary France and Napoleon

Early America and the Atlantic world

Material culture and historical memory

History, Education & Public Life

How historians build knowledge

Historical thinking and judgment

Teaching history in the age of AI

Public history and social media

Communicating scholarship to broad audiences

Bring serious history to your audience.

For interviews, speaking invitations, educational programs, and collaborations: caroline@carolinehackett.com

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