Julie Roy Jeffrey is a professor emerita and former member of the history department at

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1885 as a Nonsectarian, nonsecterian Women's colleges in the United States, ...

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. Jeffrey joined the

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faculty in 1972. Her scholarly interests have focused on the areas of

gender history Gender history is a sub-field of history and gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender. It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history. The discipline considers in what ways historical events and periodization im ...

—she is considered a pioneer of the history of women in the western

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—the

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slavery Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...

, and the history of

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. Jeffrey has held

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Chairs in

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in universities in

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and the

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and received a

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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 (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most impor ...

Prize, given by the Gilder Lehrman Center of

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. Jeffrey is co-author and co-editor of the widely used textbook on

American History The history of the present-day United States began in roughly 15,000 BC with the arrival of Peopling of the Americas, the first people in the Americas. In the late 15th century, European colonization of the Americas, European colonization beg ...

, ''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 was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard Colle ...

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, and received her Ph.D. from

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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)

References

External links

* Jeffrey bio at Goucher College, 21st-century American historians Historians of the United States Radcliffe College alumni Rice University alumni Goucher College faculty and staff Living people American women historians 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub