![]() ![]() Her mother, Mary Norton (her maiden name was Lunny), was also a professor. ![]() Her father, Clark Frederic, was a political science professor, a legislative assistant, and an employee for Congressional Research Services. The historian Mary Beth Norton was born on March 25, 1943, in Ann Arbor, a city located in the state of Michigan. Mary Beth Norton is a pioneer of women historians not only in the United States but also in the whole world, as she was the first woman to get a job in the department of history at Cornell University. She identifies as a Democrat and she considers herself a Methodist. The next year she completed a Master of Arts (M. A.) at the University of Michigan (1964). She is a recipient of the Ambassador Book Award in American Studies for In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Norton served as president of the American Historical Association in 2018. ![]() She is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emeritus of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University. Mary Beth Norton (born 1943) is an American historian, specializing in American colonial history and well known for her work on women's history and the Salem witch trials. ![]()
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