SYLVIA D. HOFFERT, a former professor of history at both UNC Chapel Hill and Texas A&M University, is the author of several books, including When Hens Crow: The Woman’s Rights Movement in Antebellu...view moreSYLVIA D. HOFFERT, a former professor of history at both UNC Chapel Hill and Texas A&M University, is the author of several books, including When Hens Crow: The Woman’s Rights Movement in Antebellum America; A History of Gender in America; Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life; and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely Champion of Women’s Rights. Hoffert lives and writes in the North Carolina piedmont.view less