Mary Beth Norton

(1943) Historian

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Mary Beth Norton is a historian.

Quick Facts About Mary Beth Norton

Born: March 25, 1943
Profession: Historian

About Mary Beth Norton

[Wikidata] American historian... | [Wikipedia]

Mary Beth Norton is an American historian, specializing in American colonial history and well known for her work on women's history and the Salem witch trials. She is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emeritus of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University. The first woman to

Quotes by Mary Beth Norton

“The autumn hit-and-run raids and the colonists’ attempts to retaliate ended with the early onset of especially heavy snowfalls that year. Over…

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Personal gain

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“Cruell mordrous Rogs in the first Indian war”; it was, he emphasized, “very straing that a govnor shoold bee soe Carless of…

Mary Beth Norton

War

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“Goody Putnam thereby became the first to follow Tituba in describing the devil’s book—an object that, in many guises, was eventually to…

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“The accused and the magistrate next engaged in a dialogue about what constituted witchcraft. If she had not signed the book, had…

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Books

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“Samuel Willard’s account of her afflictions, widely available in published form after 1684 in Increase Mather’s Remarkable Providences, almost certainly influenced the…

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Books

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