Mary Ritter Beard
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Mary Ritter Beard (1876 - 1958), was a United States historian and campaigner for women's suffrage. Like her husband Charles A. Beard (married in 1900), Mary was an influential historian, but she was also renowned for her social activism. She co-wrote "The Rise of American Civilization" in 1927 with her husband. She also wrote her first book on "Municipal Housekeeping" of civic minded women and edited many books on the history of women, including "America Through Women's Eyes" from which Ellen Carol Dubois and Lynn Dumenil's "Through Women's Eyes"drew it's title. She is also known for her study "Woman as a force in history : a study in traditions and realities" (1946).
Further reading
- Making Women's History. The Essential Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (editor), the feminist press 2001
- A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters, edited by Nancy F. Cott, Yale University Press 1991
- Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents, Ellen Carol Dubois and Lynn Dumenil,Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston, MA, 2005, ISBN 0-3-1224731
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