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Norton, Mary Beth
Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History
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- Professor, History (HIST), College of Arts and Sciences
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Research
research overview
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- Early American History
- Women's-Gender History.
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- The Refugee's Revenge. Common-Place. 2. 2002
- George Burroughs and the Girls from Casco: The Maine Roots of Salem Witchcraft. Maine History. 40:259-278. 2001
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book
- In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2002
- Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. New York: A.A. Knopf. 1996
- A People and a Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1982
- Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, l750‑1800. Boston: Little, Brown. 1980
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chapter
- 'Either Married or To Bee Married': Women’s Legal Inequality in Early America. Inequality in Early America. 1999
selected publications listing
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- Books
- In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002; Vintage paperback, 2003).
- Ed., Major Problems in American Women’s History (1st ed. D.C. Heath, 1989; 2nd ed. [with Ruth Alexander], Houghton Mifflin, 1995; 3rd ed. [with Ruth Alexander], Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
- Founding Mothers &Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; Vintage Paperback, 1997).
- (with 5 others) A People and a Nation (Houghton Mifflin, 1st ed., 1982; 2nd ed., 1986; 3rd. ed., 1990; 4th ed., 1994; 5th ed., 1998; 6th ed., 2001; 7th ed., forthcoming, 2004), Japanese translation 1996.
- Articles
- “The Refugee’s Revenge,” Common-place.org, 2:3 (April 2002).
- “George Burroughs and the Girls from Casco: The Maine Roots of Salem Witchcraft,” Main History 40, no. 1 (Winter 2001-2002): 259-277.
- “’Either Married or To Be Married’: Women’s Legal Inequality in Early America,” in Carla Pestana and Sharon Salinger, eds. Inequality in Early America: essays in Honor of Gary Nash.
- “Searchers Again Assembled,” introduction to pt. 2 of Founding Mothers & Fathers, in Women’s America, ed. Linda Kerber and Jane DeHart, 5th ed. (2000), 6th ed. (2003).
- “The Philadelphia Ladies Association,” in Historical Viewpoints, vol. 1 (4th ed., 5th ed., 6th ed., 7th ed., ed. J. Garraty, 1983-2002).
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Teaching
teaching overview
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- Women in American Society, Past and Present | HIST 273
- Introduction to Graduate Study of History | HIST 709
- Early Modern Atlantic World | HIST 655
teaching activities
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2013
- AMST-2090: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 - Fall 2012
- ASTRO-1700: History of Exploration: Land, Sea, and Space - Fall 2012
- FGSS-2090: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 - Fall 2012
- HIST-1700: History of Exploration: Land, Sea, and Space - Fall 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-2090: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 - Fall 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- AMST-2730: Women in American Society, Past and Present - Spring 2012
- AMST-4211: Seminar on the American Revolution - Spring 2012
- AMST-6261: Seminar on the American Revolution - Spring 2012
- FGSS-2730: Women in American Society, Past and Present - Spring 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-2730: Women in American Society, Past and Present - Spring 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-4211: Seminar on the American Revolution - Spring 2012
- HIST-6261: Seminar on the American Revolution - Spring 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2012
- AMST-2090: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 - Fall 2011
- ASTRO-1700: History of Exploration: Land, Sea, and Space - Fall 2011
- FGSS-2090: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 - Fall 2011
- HIST-1700: History of Exploration: Land, Sea, and Space - Fall 2011
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-2090: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 - Fall 2011
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Fall 2011
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1969
- M.A., Harvard University 1965
- B.A., University of Michigan 1964
awards and honors
awards and distinctions listing
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- Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Huntington Library, spring 2001.
- Starr Foundation Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Fall 2000.
- Ambassador Book Award in American Studies, 2003, English-Speaking Union.
- Finalist, LA Times book prize in History, 2003. (University Press of New England, 1999), 25-45.
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History, 1997.