Violet Barbour (July 5, 1884

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

- August 31, 1968) was an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

Education

She graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

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, closely foll ...

as a professor of English and European history.

Awards

* 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

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

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