Violet Barbour
Encyclopedia
Violet Barbour was an American historian
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She graduated from Cornell University
with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Beginning in 1914, she taught at Vassar College
as a professor of English and European history.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
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She graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Beginning in 1914, she taught at Vassar College
Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
as a professor of English and European history.
Awards
- 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the American Historical AssociationAmerican Historical AssociationThe American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...
Works
- Privateers and pirates of the West Indies, Cornell University, 1909
- Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century, University of Michigan Press, 1950
- Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II, American Historical Association, 1915