Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Her first book, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, examines the origins of the women's rights movement and won the annual award of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) in 1999. His second book, Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which sought to correct the skewed view with which Thomas Jefferson's vice president has been portrayed over two centuries, received critical acclaim, was included in the History Book Club's Main Selection, won the 2008 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of biography. His third book, Madison and Jefferson, co-authored with Andrew Burstein, was a New York Times bestseller and was voted one of the top five nonfiction titles of 2010 by Kirkus. With Burstein he has also written The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality. Isenberg has appeared on C-SPAN2 Book TV and several NPR shows. He has published articles in the New York Review of Books, Washington Post, American Scholar, Chronicle of Higher Education, Journal of American History, American Quarterly and Hedgehog Review. She and Burstein regularly collaborate in Salon.com and publish writings on current political and cultural issues for various media.