Barbara Leah Miller Solomon (February 12, 1919 – August 20, 1992) was an American historian.
[1] She attended Girls' Latin School,[1] then Radcliffe College, where she graduated magna cum laude in American History and Literature in 1940.
[3][1] She studied with Oscar Handlin and Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.[2] She began teaching in 1957, first at Wheelock College in Boston.
[2] In 1940, Miller eloped to New York with Harvard classmate Peter Herman Solomon, the son of a Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor and a psychiatric social worker.
[3] She died of cancer on August 20, 1992, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 73.