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Intro
American historian
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Female
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Birth:
5 July 1884(Cincinnati)
Death:
31 August 1968
The details
Biography
Introduction
Violet Barbour (July 5, 1884 Cincinnati, Ohio - August 31, 1968) was an American historian.
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.
Awards
- 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the American Historical Association
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