[2] She was an early adopter of digital techniques for historical research, but, in her capacity as a longtime officer of the SCSC, she celebrated the field's past as a foundation for later work.
[1] The daughter of economic historian Abbott Payson Usher, Chrisman grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended the May School in Boston.
[5] Chrisman was an influential member of a generation of scholars arguing for historical complexity and the significance of social movements against the older idea of a single Reformation with consistent goals and teachings led by prominent theologians.
[12] Her work received a number of significant honors, including the Wilbur Cross Medal from her alma mater Yale University.
She quickly changed her mind about the timing, writing to Donald later that month, "I should like to get married when you finish at the city"—Donald was completing his medical residency in St. Louis—"rather than waiting until the war is over.