Linda Grant DePauw

Linda Grant DePauw (born January 19, 1940 in New York City ) is an American modern historian , university professor and non-fiction author .

Life

Linda Grant was born in 1940 to Phillip Grant and Ruth. Marks born. She completed her history training at Swarthmore College in 1961 in Swarthmore as a Bachelor . In 1964 she joined the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as a doctor ( Ph.D. from). After the marriage she has the family name "Grant DePauw".

In 1964/65 she worked as an assistant professor at the chair of history at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax . In 1964 she received the Albert J. Beveridge Award for the doctoral thesis The Eleventh Pillar. New York State and the Federal Constitution , about the first US Federal Constitution , and New York , which became the eleventh state to join the Union in 1788.

In 1965/66 she was employed in Washington, DC as a specialist assistant for archives at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and from 1966 to 1969 as an assistant for history at George Washington University . From 1969–1975 she taught there as an associate professor and from 1975 until her retirement in 1999 as a professor of American history .

Linda Grant DePauw was a pioneer in the field of women's studies in the United States, describing the role of women in the American Revolution , Civil War , seafaring, and wartime. In 2007 she wrote the book about Molly Pitcher's war effort at the Battle of Monmouth (1778). She founded The Minerva Center for Studies on Women and War in New York in 1983, is its longtime president and edits the Minerva Journal of Women and War . She is a longtime member of the American Historical Association (AHA) based in Washington.

Works

The Eleventh Pillar. New York State and the Federal Constitution . (Doctoral dissertation ), first edition 1964
Four traditions. Women of New York during the American Revolution . 1974
Founding Mothers. Women of America in the Revolutionary Era . First edition 1975
with Conover Hunt, Miriam Schneidr: Remember the Ladies. Women in America 1750-1815 . First edition 1975
Fortunes of War. New Jersey Women and the American Revolution . (New Jersey's Revolutionary Experience). vol. 26 (1978)
Seafaring Women . 1982
Baptism of Fire . Minerva Center 1993
Battle Cries and Lullabies. Women in War from Prehistory to the Present . Norman. University of Oklahoma Press 1998
Sea changes . 2003
In Search of Molly Pitcher . 2007

Award

1964: Albert J. Beveridge Award for The Eleventh Pillar. New York State and the Federal Constitution

Web links

Individual evidence

^ The Minerva Center. Retrieved October 16, 2016 (American English).

personal data
SURNAME	Grant DePauw, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Linda Grant (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American modern historian, university lecturer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City

[1] The Minerva Center. Retrieved October 16, 2016 (American English).