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Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958), was a United States historian and campaigner for woman's suffrage.

She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Like her husband Charles A. Beard (married in 1900) whom she met at her alma mater, DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, Mary was an influential historian. 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 its title. She is also known for her study "Women As a Force in History: a Study in Traditions and Realities" (1946).

She was interred in Hartsdale in Westchester County in New York.

See also

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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 0-312-24731-1

This biographical information was gathered from the Mary_Ritter_Beard page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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