Dr. Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian. Green was born in 1897 in Ann Arbor, and was the daughter of American constitutional historian Andrew C. McLaughlin. She received a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1937, before joining the Smith College history department as an instructor. During the Second World War, Green served as a historian at the Springfield Armory, and later was promoted to being the chief historian of the Army Ordinance Department in 1948. In 1954, Green began research on her most well-known work, a two volume history of Washington, D.C. The first volume, Washington, Village and Capital: 1800-1878 was published in 1962, followed by the second volume, Washington, Capital City: 1879-1950, in 1963.