Patricia Cline Cohen is Professor of History and Acting Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1991 to 1996 she chaired the Women's Studies Program there. She is the author ofA Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America(1985) and of numerous articles and reviews, and a coauthor ofThe American Promise(1997). From the Hardcover edition.