Mary Beth Norton
Author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
About the Author
Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of many books, including Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, also from Cornell; In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692; and Founding show more Mothers Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. show less
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Works by Mary Beth Norton
A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Vol. B: Since 1865 [Brief Edition] (1991) 42 copies
A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Vol. A: To 1877 [Brief Edition] (1991) 33 copies
The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, Third Edition, Volume Two (1995) 4 copies
Norton A People And A Nation Study Guide Volume One Print Advancedplacement Eighth Edition (1994) 4 copies
Associated Works
I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America (2006) — Contributor — 265 copies
The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority and Ideology (1991) — Contributor — 35 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1943-03-25
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (Ph.D. | 1969)
Harvard University (M.A. | 1965)
University of Michigan (B.A. | 1964) - Occupations
- Professor of American History (Cornell University)
historian - Organizations
- Cornell University
- Awards and honors
- Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship (2008)
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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I think Norton presents sufficient evidence to categorize the crisis as a product of Indian Wars more than anything else. The vast amount of overlap between victims of the paranormal activity and Indian brutality is hard to ignore. That the colonists in Essex county saw them as one and the same is also evident.… (more)