Elisabeth Israels Perry, Belle Moskowitz's granddaughter, holds the John Francis Bannon Chair in U.S. History and American Studies at St. Louis University. Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 and Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity.