Mary B. (Beth) Norton

Born: 03/25/1943   Ann Arbor , MI
Parents: Clark F. Norton, Mary E. Norton
Address(es):
Permanent :
820 Triphammer Road
Ithaca , NY 14850
U.S.A.
Permanent :
Department of History, 450 McGraw Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca , NY 14853-4601
Contact Information:
Email : [email protected].

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Separated by their sex : women in public and private in the colonial Atlantic world History Adult Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2011
Major Problems in American Women's History : documents and essays
- Co-Editor
History Adult Boston : Houghton Mifflin 2007
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 History Adult New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2002 -2003
Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
-  A study of gender and politics in the Anglo-American colonies, c. 1670-1750.
History Adult New York : Alfred A. Knopf 1996
Major Problems in American Women's History : documents and essays
- Editor
Non Fiction Adult Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath 1989
To Toil the Livelong Day: American's Women at Work, 1790-1980
- Co-Editor
Non Fiction Adult Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 1987
A People and a Nation
- With other authors (Publication Years: 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2001)
History Adult Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. 1982 -2015
Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
- Republished with new preface, Cornell University Press, 1996.
History Adult Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co 1980
Women of America: A History
- Co-Editor
History Adult Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co 1979
Constable and Company Non Fiction 1974
The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 History Adult Boston : Little, Brown 1972
Other writings:
- Contributor to History Today, William and Mary Quarterly, Signs
What is the aim or goal of your writing: "To recreate history in an interesting, relevant, and lively manner." 2nd ed. says, "My aim as a teacher and writer of history is to try to make the past come alive by examining the lives of real people, ordinary people in the past. At the moment, I find women's history the most exciiting and rewarding field of research."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Other - Historian

Awards:

Name Date
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Huntington Library 2001
Starr Foundation Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford 2000
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History 1997
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellow 1994 -1995
Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 1989 -1990
Gender Roles Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation 1986 -1987
Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 1984
Berkshire Conference Prize for best book by a woman historian 1981
Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University 1977 -1978
Fellowship, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University. N.E.H. Younger Humanists Fellowship 1974 -1975
Allan Nevins Prize for best-written dissertation in American history 1970
Harvard Prize Fellowship 1964 -1969
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1964

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd ed. 1993
Who's Who in America 1990 -1991
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. 1980
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 49-52 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 5, 125
1975 -2004
Directory of American Scholars
Listed in recent editions of Who's Who in America

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.); Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Harvard University Cambridge , MA 1964 -1969
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1960 -1964

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
General editor AHA ( American Historical Association) Guide to Historical Literature 1990
Consulting editor AHA Guide to Historical Literature 1987 -1990
Professor Cornell University Ithaca , NY 1971
Assistant Professor University of Connecticut Storrs 1969 -1971
Chairwoman, member, co-chair, president
- Many conferences, committees, councils and related professional activities
Served as judge Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize Cincinnati

Other Resources:

Other Comments:

Norton also appears in a variety of history programs and documentaries about colonial times, including *Salem Witch Trials in the Discovery Channel's Unsolved History series in 2003[7] *Witch Hunt on the The History Channel in 2004. *PBS Series History Detectives, on Season 6, Episode 7, "Front Street Blockhouse.", 2008 *Salem Witch Hunt: Examine the Evidence in 2011 for the Essex National Heritage Commission and the National Park Service

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