Eliz­a­beth R. Hyman is the descen­dant of Pol­ish Jews who fled Europe in 1939 and made their way, as refugees, to the Unit­ed States. She earned dual master’s degrees in His­to­ry and Library and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land-Col­lege Park, and has writ­ten the his­to­ry blog, HIS­TORIC­I­TY (was already tak­en) since 2011. She lives in New Paltz, New York.