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The historian Mary Beth Norton was born on March 25, 1943, in Ann Arbor, a city located in the state of Michigan. Her father, Clark Frederic, was a political science professor, a legislative assistant, and an employee for Congressional Research Services. Her mother, Mary Norton (her maiden name was Lunny), was also a professor.
Four daughters survived childhood, Elizabeth, Mary, Ann (Nancy), and Lucy. [4] Her father educated her and her sisters at home. Carrington believed in the importance of education for women and she read books on a wide-range of subjects. [5] She describes her recollections of education in a letter to her sister Nancy in 1807:
Other Cornellians to head the American Historical Association include faculty members Carl L. Becker and Mary Beth Norton, as well as alumni Robert Roswell Palmer and William Leuchtenburg. In 1887, the Department was renamed the President White School of History and Political Science in honor of Andrew Dickson White's service to the university ...
It is unclear what happened to Hubbard after the trials concluded. American historian Mary Beth Norton states in her book In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 that Hubbard moved from Salem to Gloucester in Massachusetts. Norton purports that Hubbard married a man named John Bennett, with whom she had four children.
Mary Norton may refer to: Andre Norton (1912–2005), American author; born Alice Mary Norton; Mary Beth Norton (born 1943), American historian; Mary D. Herter Norton (1894–1985), American publisher, violinist, and translator; co-founder of W. W. Norton & Company; Mary Norton (writer) (1903–1992), English author of the series The Borrowers
Norton, Mary Beth (1980). Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Porterfield, Amanda (1997). Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. Robbins, Sarah (2002).
the first has somehow, in some way, been my best year yet. So, as I often say to participants in the workshop, “If a school teacher from Nebraska can do it, so can you!”
The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford U.P. 1995) 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics vol 1 online, vol 2 online; Allison, William Henry.