Martha H. PattersonAn English professor at McKendree University, Martha H. Patterson wrote Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895 –1915 (Illinois, 2005) and edited The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894 –1930 (Rutgers, 2008), and sered as co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887 –1937 (Princeton, 2025). Read More Read Less