Caroline Farrar Ware

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Caroline Farrar Ware (born August 14, 1899 in Brookline , Massachusetts , † April 5, 1990 ) was an American history professor, social scientist and an advocate of the New Deal in the reign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt .

Life

Goods received the Bachelor Accounts at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1920. At Radcliffe College in Yonkers , New York , the College for women, with the Harvard University is connected, she received her Master . Your Promotion to Ph.D. at Radcliffe College took place in 1925.

In 1925 Ware went back to Vassar College as an associate professor and taught there from 1925 to 1930 and 1932 to 1934. In 1927 she married her colleague Gardiner Means . In the years that followed, she was an advisor to the Roosevelt government on economic issues during the New Deal era, but continued to teach. Stations were teaching for social sciences from 1935 to 1940 at Sarah Lawrence College , followed by a long stint at the American University in Washington, DC from 1936 to 1954, most recently at the chair of social sciences. From 1954 to 1961 she was a professor at the School of Social Work at Howard University in Washington, DC

Since the early 1940s, Ware had a lifelong collaboration with civil rights activist Pauli Murray .

Publications (selection)

  • The Early New England Cotton Manufacture. A Study in Industrial Beginnings . Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts 1931, reprinted by Johnson, New York City, 1966.
  • together with Gardiner Means: The Modern Economy in Action , Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York 1936.
  • together with Alfred Vagts as editor: The Cultural Approach to History , edited for the American Historical Association , Columbia University Press, New York 1940.
  • Consumer Goes to War: A Guide to Victory on the Home Front . Funk & Wagnalis, New York City / London 1942.

literature

  • Anne Firar Scott: Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White . University of North Carolina Press, Durham, North Carolina, USA 2008, ISBN 978-0-807859285 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ware, Caroline Farrar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1990