Background
Mary Norton was born on March 25, 1943, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. She is a daughter of Clark Frederick Norton and Mary Elizabeth Lunny Norton. She also has a younger brother.
2016
Don Randel, Mary Beth Norton, Ishion Hutchinson and Paul Fleming participate in the "Transformative Humanities: Faculty Reflections on Life-Changing Creative Works” panel.
500 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
The University of Michigan where Mary Norton received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Harvard University where Mary Norton received a Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Dr. Gill Sutherland, Professor Mary Beth Norton, and the Principal, Professor Dame Carol Black.
(First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Libert...)
First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.
https://www.amazon.com/Libertys-Daughters-Revolutionary-Experience-1750-1800/dp/0801483476
1980
(Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, th...)
Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, this novel is about power relationships in early American society, religion, and politics – with insights into the initial development and operation of government, the maintenance of social order, and the experiences of individual men and women.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HFRJD0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4
1996
(Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the S...)
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees – including the main accusers of witches – had fled to communities like Salem.
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Snare-Salem-Witchcraft-Crisis/dp/0375706909
2002
(In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold...)
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon’s Rebellion by the actions of – and reactions to – Lady Frances Berkeley, wife of Virginia’s governor.
https://www.amazon.com/Separated-Their-Sex-Colonial-Atlantic/dp/0801456800
2011
(From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial hist...)
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party and the first Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
https://www.amazon.com/1774-Revolution-Mary-Beth-Norton/dp/0385353367/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581059476&refinements=p_27%3AMary+Norton&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Mary+Norton
2020
Mary Norton was born on March 25, 1943, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. She is a daughter of Clark Frederick Norton and Mary Elizabeth Lunny Norton. She also has a younger brother.
Mary Norton attended the University of Michigan where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964. She also studied at Harvard University and received a Master of Arts degree in 1965 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1969. She was one of just three women among 20 entering doctoral students. Her doctoral dissertation, The British-Americans, was published by Little, Brown and Company.
Mary Norton started her career as an assistant professor of History at the University of Connecticut in 1969. She held this post until 1971 and then became an assistant professor at Cornell University. In 1974, she was appointed an associate professor of American History and in 1987 she became the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American history. She also served as a Pitt Professor of American History & Institutions at the University of Cambridge from 2005 to 2006.
Mary Norton published her first book Liberty's Daughters in 1980. Later she wrote such books as Founding Mothers & Fathers, In the Devil's Snare and Separated by Their Sex. She was a co-author of the book A People & A Nation. Norton also was the general editor of the AHA Guide to Historical Literature in 1995. She 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 and in Witch Hunt on the History Channel in 2004.
(From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial hist...)
2020(Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, th...)
1996(In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold...)
2011(First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Libert...)
1980(Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the S...)
2002Mary Norton was president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and also vice president for research of the American Historical Association. Norton is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.