Mary Beth Norton

Biographic Data

ID527469
NAMEMary Beth Norton
GIVEN NAMESMary Beth
FAMILY NAMENorton
SIGNATURENORTON M B
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS48
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX5

  • History on the Diagonal

    Open AccessMary Beth NortonARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

  • Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins: A Perspective from 1774

    Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2018

    This article addresses debates among revolutionaries in 1774 (omitted from Ideological Origins) about whether the East India Company should be compensated for the tea destroyed in Boston in December 1773

  • The Seventh Tea Ship

    Mary Beth Norton, Mary Beth Norton Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2016

    When a ship carrying East India Company tea wrecked on Cape Cod in late 1773, the presence of thousands of pounds of salvaged, untaxed tea created significant divisions among local residents, thus exposing differences of opinion usually concealed by historians’ emphasis on colonial unity in opposition to the Tea Act. Quarrels arose over whether the tea could be sold because it had not been taxed, or if it should be boycotted as a product of the E…

  • Essex County Witchcraft

    Open AccessMary Beth NortonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2008

    SALEM witchcraft is, in a word, bewitching. No one knows that better than Bernard Rosenthal, a professor of American literature, who set out in the 1980s to write a book about the events that inspired so many authors of fiction and who, more than two decades later, is still involved with the subject as the general editor of the forth coming Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. Or take me, for example. As part of a larger project on the relationship b…

  • The Names of the Rivers”: A New Look at an Old Document

    Mary Beth Norton, Emerson W BakerARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2007

    Analyzing a mysterious, early-seventeenth-century description of the New England coast from Maine to Martha's Vineyard, the essay provides information about Native American sachems, suggests insights into the means by which explorers exchanged information, and offers an interpretation of Martin Pring's landing

  • Reflections of a Longtime Textbook Author; Or, History Revised, Revised--and Revised Again

    Mary Beth NortonARTICLEJournal of American History2005

    About three decades ago, I agreed to join a textbook team being organized for Houghton Mifflin by my friend and former University of Connecticut colleague Tom Paterson. When I signed the contract for what became A People and a Nation (APAN), it never crossed my mind that I would still be writing and rewriting the same book well into the twenty-first century, nor that our book would reshape the entire field of American history survey textbooks. We…

  • Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

    Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2005Cited by: 1

  • In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

    Richard Godbeer, Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2003

  • Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government

    Mary Beth Norton, Catherine AllgorARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Parlor Politics is the most recent in a series of books linking the history of gender to that of politics. Like several other feminist scholars, Catherine Allgor believes that women's history has tended to focus too exclusively on the so called “private sphere” and that too much women's political history has concentrated solely on women's rights and allied movements. In this innovative and wellwritten book (a prizewinner in its dissertation form)…

  • Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York

    Mary Beth Norton, Donna MerwickARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000

  • A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics

    Mary Beth Norton, Mark E KannARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 7

    I started this book in .After doing some initial research, I began to write an introductory chapter meant to create a context for examining the American founders' construction of gender and politics.My idea was to explore the gendered basis of seventeenth-century English political theory and the gendered evolution of nineteenth-century American culture.Building on the past and anticipating the future, I would then focus the main analysis on how t…

  • Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

    Norma Basch, Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

    Jack P Greene, Mary Beth NortonARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. By Mary Beth Norton. (New York: Knopf, 1996. x, 496 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-42965-4.) Get access Jack P. Greene Jack P. Greene Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1459–1461, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568094 …

  • The Ablest Midwife That Wee Knowe in the Land: Mistress Alice Tilly and the Women of Boston and Dorchester, 1649-1650

    Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1998

    I N the spring of i649, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's Court of Assistants tried, convicted, and imprisoned Mistress Alice Tilly, a prominent Boston midwife. During the course of the legal proceedings, which lasted for over a year, large groups of women submitted six petitions on her behalf, causing the authorities to modify their initial negative judgment. What offense had Alice Tilly committed? On what evidence was she convicted? Neither of tho…

  • Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

    Lilian Handlin, Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1997

  • Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

    Beatriz Betancourt Hardy, Mary Beth NortonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1997

  • Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

    Janis L McDonald, Mary Beth NortonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1997

    Journal Article Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society Get access Norton Mary Beth, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. x, 496 pp. $35.00. Janis L. McDonald Janis L. McDonald Syracuse University College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, …

  • Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution

    Mary Beth Norton, Harriet B Applewhite et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution. Ed. by Harriet B. Applewhite and Darline G. Levy. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. viii + 289 pp. $34.50.) Get access Mary Beth Norton Mary Beth Norton Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1058, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835

    Mary Beth Norton, Terri L PremoARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1991

  • Justice, Gender and the Family

    Mary Beth Norton, Susan Moller OkinARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1991

  • Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations

    Mary Beth Norton, David Brion DavisARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1991

  • The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. Vol. I: 1748-August 1755. Vol. II: August 1755-April 1756

    Mary Beth Norton, W W Abbot et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. Ed. by W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville, The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. Ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville, The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. Ed. by W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville Get access Mary Beth Norton Mary Beth Norton Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…

  • To Toil the Livelong Day: Women at Work, 1780-1980

    Carol Groneman, Mary Beth NortonARTICLELabour / Le Travail1989

  • The Adams Women: Abigail & Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters

    Mary Beth Norton, Paul C Nagel et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1988

  • To Toil the Livelong Day: America's Women at Work, 1780-1980

    Dorothee Schneider, Carol Groneman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1988Cited by: 10

    Journal Article “To Toil the Livelong Day”: America's Women at Work, 1780–1980. Ed. by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xi + 312 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access Dorothee Schneider Dorothee Schneider Occidental College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 925–926, https://doi.org/10.230…