Anne Firor Scott
Anne Firor Scott (born April 24, 1921 in Montezuma (Georgia) ; † February 5, 2019 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) was an American historian .
biography
Scott graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in 1941, received her master's degree in political science from Northwestern University in 1944 . During the war she worked in Washington, DC for the National League of Women Voters. After the war she married the Navy pilot and later political scientist Andrew M. Scott and had three children with him. She received her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1958 . She taught at Haverford College and part-time at the University of North Carolina (the first woman in their history department). In doing so, she followed the places of her husband's career, with whom she was in Italy in 1960, where he was a Fulbright professor. From 1961 she taught at Duke University (in a position that was originally only intended as a substitute position until a male candidate was found), where she held the WK Boyd Professor of History, headed the history faculty in 1980 and retired in 1991.
She dealt with the role of women in the (political) history of the USA. In her book The Southern Lady from 1970, based on the analysis of diaries and letters, she showed that women in the southern states of the USA were by no means apolitical, but that they played a key role in shaping political events. She played a pioneering role in establishing women's history as a subject of the curriculum in the USA. She and her husband wrote a book about the suffragette movement. From 1985 to 1998 she headed the Jane Addams Paper Project and in 2006 edited the correspondence of two unusual women, political activist Caroline Ware (who Scott was also friends with) and Afro-American civil rights attorney, professor and feminist (and Episcopalian first priestess) Pauli Murray.
Scott served on the North Carolina Commission on the Status of Women and on the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women of US President Lyndon B. Johnson .
She was president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in 1984 and the Southern Historical Association in 1989. She received the OAH Distinguished Service Award in 2002, the University Medal from Duke University in 1994, and the American Historical Association's Scholarly Achievement Award in 2008. In 2013 she received the National Humanities Medal and in 2016 the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award . The OAH awards her and Gerda Lerner the Lerner Scott Prize in honor. In 2004 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She has held honorary degrees from Queens College, Northwestern University, Radcliffe College, and the University of the South.
Fonts (selection)
- The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, 1970, University of Virginia Press 1995
- Women in American Life, 1970
- The American woman: who was she ?, Eyewitness accounts of American history series, 1971
- with Andrew M. Scott: Natural Allies, One Half the People, 1975
- What, then, is the American; this new woman ?, 1978
- Making the Invisible Woman Visible, 1984
- with Suzanne Lebsock : Virginia Women: The First Two Hundred Years, 1988
- Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History, 1992
- Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women, 1993
- Editor with Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White, 2006
- with Dorothy S. Shawhan, Martha H. Swain: Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South, 2011
literature
- Elizabeth Anne Payne (Ed.): Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott, 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scott, Anne Firor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scott, Ann Firor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montezuma (Georgia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2019 |
| Place of death | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |