Mary Ritter Beard’s latest coverage isn’t about new events, since she passed away in 1958; what’s current are recent retrospectives and biographical overviews of her work in women’s history and suffrage activism. Here are reliable, up-to-date sources you can consult for contemporary perspectives and scholarship:
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Other articles where Mary Ritter Beard is discussed: historiography: Women’s history: An exception was Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), who coauthored a number of books with her more famous husband, Charles Beard, and also wrote Women as a Force in History, arguably the first general work in American women’s history.
www.britannica.comHappy Women’s History Month, Mary Ritter Beard.
www.middlebury.eduBiography of Mary Ritter Beard
spartacus-educational.comScholar, historian, women’s historian, activist, archivist, reformer, wife, mother — all at once
aninjusticemag.comBEARD, Mary RitterBorn 5 August 1876, Indianapolis, Indiana; died 14 August 1958, Phoenix, ArizonaDaughter of Eli Foster and Marassa Lockwood Ritter; married Charles Austin Beard, 1900 Source for information on Beard, Mary Ritter: American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present dictionary.
www.encyclopedia.comBEARD, Mary Ritter 1876-1958PERSONAL: Born August 5, 1876, in Indianapolis, IN; died August 14, 1958, in Scottsdale, AZ; daughter of Eli Foster (an attorney) and Narcissa (a teacher; maiden name, Smith Lockwood) Ritter; married Charles Austin Beard, 1900 (died 1948); children: one son, one daughter. Source for information on Beard, Mary Ritter 1876-1958: Contemporary Authors dictionary.
www.encyclopedia.comMary Ritter Beard(August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements.
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