Sarah Marjorie Savage Pearsall is an American historian specialized in the history of North America between c. 1500 and c. 1800.
She is a professor and director of undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
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Life
Pearsall completed a Ph.D. at Harvard University. Her 2001 dissertation was titled After All These Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815. Her doctoral advisor was Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Pearsall is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She was co-editor of The Historical Journal.
Selected works
Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2008). Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953299-5.
Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2019). Polygamy: An Early American History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22684-3.
Pearsall, Sarah M. S. (2022). Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-753317-8.
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, Knopf Doubleday, 2026