Meg Meneghel MacDonald is an independent historian and writer in Seattle, Washington.  She holds a Ph.D. in American history and American studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, and specializes in nineteenth-century women’s and social history.  MacDonald was awarded a Historical Documents Editing Fellowship by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and spent a year at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project, at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  There she was editorial assistant on volume 3 of The Stanton/Anthony Papers, National Protection for National Citizens, 1873 to 1880: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 2003).  She is the author of articles on women’s history and the history profession, including “History From the Bottom Up:  On Reproducing Professional Culture in Graduate Education,” Journal of American History 81:3 (December 1994).