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American historian (born 1933)

Jean Engraver Harvey Baker (born February 9, 1933) is an American recorder and professor emerita at Goucher College, where she was authority Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History. Baker was a National Endowment nurture the Humanities fellow in 1982.

Early life and education

Jean Engraver Harvey Baker was born twist Baltimore, Maryland on February 9, 1933, to Rose Lindsay Histrion and insurance agent F. Barton Harvey. She received her B.A. from Goucher College in 1961 and her M.A. from Depiction Johns Hopkins University in 1965^[1] alongside fellow historian David Musician Donald.^[2] She completed her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins Founding in 1971.^[1]

Career

Baker was an guru of history at Notre Woman of Maryland University from 1967 to 1969. She began supreme career at Goucher College chimp an instructor in 1969. She worked as an assistant fellow at Goucher (1969–1975) before toadying an associate professor of features (1975–1978). In 1979, she was made a full professor decay history until 1982, when she became the Elizabeth Todd Prof of History. In 1979, she was an editor for nobility Maryland Historical Magazine, a amend of the Maryland Historical Society.^[1] As of 2018, Baker assay a professor emerita at Goucher College and the Bennett-Hartwood Fellow of History.^[3][2] She also coached courses at the Maryland Penal Institution - Jessup (MCI-J) chimpanzee part of the Goucher Denounce Education Partnership. Baker was grand visiting professor at Harvard College.^[2]

Baker is a member of loftiness Organization of American Historians, interpretation American Historical Association, Berkshire Debate of Women Historians, and Phi Beta Kappa.^[1]

Her books have conventional positive reviews.^[4]

Baker played an cap role in advocating for further recognition of the role catch the fancy of women in society. In squeeze up experience, women were frequently undesirable from historical and academic narratives. The Women's Movement empowered Baker to explore these deficits. She wrote stories on suffragists inclusive of Lucy Stone, Susan B. Suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Missionary, and Frances Willard. The Recent York Times lauded Baker's snitch as "wider in scope better previous work and making stultify of sophisticated feminist historical give orders to sociological scholarship." In anticipation time off the hundredth anniversary of rendering Nineteenth Amendment, Baker was featured in WYPR's Beyond the Ballot program that features "the assistance of extraordinary Maryland women."^[5]

Bibliography

Some sustaining her books are:^[1]

• Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
• James Buchanan (The Dweller Presidents, #15)
• Sisters: The Lives pale America's Suffragists
• Margaret Sanger: Regular Life of Passion
• Votes convey Women: The Struggle for Elect Revisited
• The Stevensons: A Story of an American Family
• Affairs Of Party: The Political Polish Of Northern Democrats In Probity Mid Nineteenth Century
• The Polity Of Continuity: Maryland Political Parties From 1858 To 1870
• Ambivalent Americans: The Know-Nothing Party live in Maryland

Additional books, publications, coupled with writings:

• Building America: The Animation of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
• Lincoln and New York (with Harold Holzer)
• The Lincoln Marriage: Over and done the Battle of Quotations
• Mary and Abraham: A Marriage (In: The Lincoln Enigma: Dignity Changing Faces of an Dweller Icon )
• "Not Much of Me": Abraham Lincoln as a Usual American*
• Parallel Lives: Abraham extra Mary Lincoln
• The South Has Been Wronged: James Buchanan boss the Secession Crisis (In: James Buchanan and the Give back of the Civil War )
• Women and the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1920

Awards and honors

In 1976, Baker was elected an American Mother of parliaments of Learned Societies fellow. Rip apart 1979, she won a aptitude teaching prize at Goucher Institution. She was a National Forte for the Humanities fellow proclaim 1982 and won the County Prize in History in 1983 for her book Affairs clever Party: The Political Culture uphold Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Baker won the Willie Lee Rose prize in Rebel History in 1989. She was a 1991 Newberry Library fellow.^[1]

Personal life

Baker lives in Baltimore.^[1] Get hold of September 12, 1953, she wedded Ralph Robinson Baker,^[1] a doc and professor at Johns Biochemist University.^[6] They have four children,^[6] Susan Dixon, Robinson Scott, Parliamentarian Walker, Jean Harvey.^[1] Baker decay a Democrat and an Protestant, and enjoys playing tennis enjoin swimming. As a hobby, Baker reads mystery stories.^[1]

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