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Margaret Creighton teaches a variety of subjects in American social and cultural history. Focusing on the nineteenth century to the present, she offers a survey of the Civil War era, and several courses on regional history and identity, including courses on the American West, Regions and American Culture, and a short term on Red Sox Nation. She also teaches a course on women and cultural geography ("A Woman's Place") and a fieldwork course for American Cultural Studies, which features work and study in Lewiston, Maine. Her courses consider the experiences of ordinary and extraordinary Americans, and the ways that ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, sexual and class differences inform historical and contemporary experience.
The books she has written take the vantage point of people frequently dismissed from conventional history. Rites and Passages and Dogwatch and Liberty Days looks at nineteenth century seafaring from the perspective of mariners before the mast. "Iron Men, Wooden Women," a co-edited collection of essays, considers the way women and gender shaped Atlantic seafaring. Most recently, Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History, is a story of the legendary Battle of Gettysburg from the view of white women, African American civilians, and immigrant soldiers. This book was a runner-up for the Lincoln Prize in 2006.
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