Julie Roy Jeffrey is Professor of History at Goucher College

Goucher College

Goucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 31 majors and six interdisciplinary...

 in Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Maryland

Maryland

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. Jeffrey joined the Goucher faculty in 1972. Her scholarly interests are broad, and have focussed on the areas of gender history

Gender history

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 -- she is considered a pioneer of the history of women in the western United States

United States

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 -- the abolition

Abolitionism

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 of slavery

Slavery

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, and the history of education

Education

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Jeffrey has held Fulbright Chairs in American Studies

American studies

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 in universities in Denmark

Denmark

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 and the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and received a National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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 research fellowship.

Jeffrey's book, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism, was awarded the Choice Award for Academic Book of Excellence and honorable mention for the Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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 Prize, given by the Gilder Lehrman Center of Yale University

Yale University

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Jeffrey is co-author and co-editor of the popular and widely used textbook on American History, The American People: The History of a Nation and a Society, which she has actively revised since the 1980s.

Jeffrey received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College

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 of Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and received her Ph.D. from Rice University

Rice University

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Selected works

• American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume II (since 1865) (2nd Ed.) (2007) with Peter J. Frederick
• The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society: to 1877 (2006) with Gary B. Nash, John R. Howe, and Allen F. Davis
• The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998)
• Where Wagons Could Go: Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spaulding (1997) with Clifford Merrill Drury
• Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman (1991)
• Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 (1979)
• Education for Children of the Poor: A Study of the Origins and Implementation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (1978)

External links

• Jeffrey Bio at Goucher College.