Violet Barbour (July 5, 1884
Cincinnati, Ohio
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– August 31, 1968) was an American
historian
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.
Education
She graduated from
Cornell University
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with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
Career
Beginning in 1914, she taught at
Vassar College
Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...
as a professor of English and European history.
Awards
* 1925
Guggenheim Fellowship
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* 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the
American Historical Association
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Selected 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
References
1884 births
1968 deaths
Cornell University alumni
Vassar College faculty
20th-century American historians
American women historians
20th-century American women writers
Historians of the early modern period
Place of death missing
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