Honor Sachs

Honor Sachs is a professor of early American history at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier (Yale, 2015). Home Rule won the Armitage-Jameson Prize from the Coalition for Western Women's History and was named one of the 2016 "Best of the West" books in early frontier history by True West Magazine. Sachs writes regularly about gender, slavery, history, and memory for The Huffington Post and History News Network. You can follow her on Twitter @drhonor and receive Facebook updates about speaking events at https://www.facebook.com/Home-Rule-1466417717017452/.