The American woman: who was she?

by Anne Firor Scott

182 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Anne Firor Scott, a pioneer historian of American women, was W. K. Boyd Professor Emerita of History at Duke University. Scott joined Duke's history department in 1961 on a visiting appointment. Nineteen years later she was named William K. Boyd Professor of History and appointed chair of the department. Professor Scott was the first woman to chair the Duke history department, and was also the first professor at Duke to include women's scholarship in her teaching and research. She was educated in her home state at the University of Georgia, as well as at Northwestern University and Radcliffe College. In addition to her tenure at Duke, she taught at Haverford College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.