Mary Beth Norton
Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History
Director of Undergraduate Studies, History
Office: 325 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-7542
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: mbn1@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1969
M.A. Harvard University, 1965
B.A. University of Michigan, 1964
Courses
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Recent Publications and Awards
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).
Awards
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.