A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

by Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (editor)

New Haven 1991-lst Yale. 378p. Index. A few photo illus. Fine in fine DJ. Beard 1876-1958, historian , social reformer and women's suffrage campaigner.

380 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Northern capitalists perpetrated the Civil War as the "second American Revolution" over southern plantation owners for economic gain; historian and feminist Mary Ritter Beard shared view of Charles Austin Beard, her husband, and collaborated on first volume in 1927 of The Rise of American Civilization , which so characterized.

Mary Ritter Beard, an archivist, played an important role in the suffrage movement of women as a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in the labor and rights. She wrote or edited several books, including On Understanding Women in 1931, America through Women's Eyes in 1933, and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities in 1946, on their role. She added eminently on several most notable distinguished works.

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