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As history scholar, alumna is teaching America’s untold stories
Alexi Garrett pages through a second edition volume of Encyclopedia Britannica published in 1783 that was originally owned by Catharine Flood McCall.
St. Olaf College graduate and history scholar Alexi Garrett ’12 is passionate about uncovering the past of the United States of America especially the stories that are often left out of history textbooks.
Having just completed her Ph.D. in early American history at the University of Virginia, Garrett specializes in the revolutionary and early national periods of the United States and focuses on issues of gender and slavery in the South. Inspired after taking St. Olaf Professor of History Steve Hahn’s “History of Women in Early America” course in 2010, Garrett has been pursuing her goal of teaching history and enriching higher education ever since. Her dissertation examines how unmarried (