Elizabeth Cobbs

Elizabeth Cobbs has won literary prizes for both history and fiction, including the Allan Nevins Prize, Stuart Bernath Book Prize, San Diego Book Award, and Director's Mention for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. She holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair in American history at Texas A\u0026amp;M. Her books include THE HAMILTON AFFAIR, A Novel (2016), AMERICAN UMPIRE (2013), BROKEN PROMISES; A Novel of the Civil War (2011), ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: THE PEACE CORPS AND THE 1960s (2000), and THE RICH NEIGHBOR POLICY (1992). She has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department. She has received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Organization of American States; American Philosophical Society; Rockefeller Foundation, and other distinguished institutions. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, China Daily News, National Public Radio, Washington Independent, San Diego Union, and Reuters. Her next book is THE HELLO GIRLS: AMERICA'S FIRST WOMEN SOLDIERS. It tells the story of how a handful of women helped win World War I, earn the vote, and triumph over the U.S. Army.