Editing Barbara W. Tuchman (section)

==Researcher and journalist==

Following graduation, Wertheim worked as a volunteer research assistant at the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] in New York, spending a year in [[Tokyo]] in 1934–35, including a month in China, then returning to the United States via the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]] to Moscow and on to Paris.<ref name=Pollack /> She also contributed to ''The Nation'' as a correspondent until her father's sale of the publication in 1937, traveling to [[Valencia]] and [[Madrid]] to cover the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Pace|first=Eric|date=February 7, 1989|title=Barbara Tuchman Dead at 77; A Pulitzer-Winning Historian|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/07/obituaries/barbara-tuchman-dead-at-77-a-pulitzer-winning-historian.html|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 

In 1940, Wertheim married Lester R. Tuchman (1904–1997), an [[internal medicine|internist]], medical researcher and professor of [[clinical medicine]] at [[Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Mount Sinai School of Medicine]] in Manhattan. They had three daughters, including [[Jessica Mathews]], who became president of the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E2D81E3FF93AA25751C1A961958260&scp=1&sq=Lester+Tuchman&st=nyt |title=Lester Tuchman, Internist and professor, 93|newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 19, 1997 |access-date=November 27, 2012}}</ref>

During the years of [[World War II]], Tuchman worked in the [[Office of War Information]].<ref name=Pollack /> Following the war, Tuchman spent the next decade working to raise her children while doing basic research for what would ultimately become the 1956 book ''Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour.''<ref name=Pollack />