Edith Dobie (10 February 1887 – 24 April 1975) was an American

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Life

Edith Dobie was born in

Bradford, Pennsylvania Bradford is a city in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located close to the border with New York state and approximately south of Buffalo, New York. Home to an oil refinery, Zippo headquarters and a University of Pittsburgh b ...

on 10 February 1887. She finished high school in 1903 and then taught school, including in the Bradford Public Schools. She was awarded her A.B. from

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...

in 1914, becoming an instructor in history at Cortland Teachers College. Four years later Dobie was a history instructor at Westfield State Teachers College, in

Westfield, Massachusetts Westfield is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, United States. Westfield was first settled by Europeans in 1660. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield metrop ...

, and in 1920 she became a history instructor at the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton. In 1922 Dobie received an M.A. from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

and became an

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of history at

Wesleyan College Wesleyan College is a Private university, private, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's Colleges in the Southern United States, women's college in Macon, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1836, Wesleyan was the fi ...

Macon, Georgia Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Situated near the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is southeast of Atlanta and near the ...

. Four years later, she earned her Ph.D. from

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. In 1926 Dobie was hired as an instructor in history at the

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and remained there until her retirement as a full professor in 1957. That same year she died in

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, on 24 April.

Publications

In 1927 Dobie published ''The Political Career of Stephen Mallory White: A Study of Party Activities Under the Convention System'' and she followed that with ''Problems in International Understanding'' in 1928. She contributed to ''If Men Want Peace'' in 1946 and wrote ''The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth'' twenty years later and ''Malta’s Road to Independence'' in 1967.Scanlon & Cosner, p. 62

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dobie, Edith 1887 births 1975 deaths Syracuse University alumni University of Chicago alumni Historians from New York (state)