Jean H. Baker
Jean H. Baker | |
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Born | Jean Hogarth Harvey February 9, 1933 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Occupation | Historian |
Education |
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Subjects | American history |
Years active | 1967–present |
Spouse |
Ralph Baker (m. 1953) |
Children | 4 |
Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker (born February 9, 1933) is an American historian and professor emerita at Goucher College, where she was the Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History. Baker was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982.
Early life and education
Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 9, 1933, to Rose Lindsay Hopkins and insurance agent F. Barton Harvey. She received her B.A. from Goucher College in 1961 and her M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1965[1] alongside fellow historian David Herbert Donald.[2] She completed her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1971.[1]
Career
Baker was an instructor of history at
Baker is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and Phi Beta Kappa.[1]
Her books have received positive reviews.[4]
Baker played an important role in advocating for increased recognition of the role of women in society. In her experience, women were frequently excluded from historical and academic narratives. The
Bibliography
Some of her books are:[1]
- Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
- James Buchanan (The American Presidents, #15)
- Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
- Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion
- Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
- The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family
- Affairs Of Party: The Political Culture Of Northern Democrats In The Mid Nineteenth Century
- The Politics Of Continuity: Maryland Political Parties From 1858 To 1870
- Ambivalent Americans: The Know-Nothing Party in Maryland
Additional books, publications, and writings:
- Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- Lincoln and New York (with Harold Holzer)
- The Lincoln Marriage: Beyond the Battle of Quotations
- Mary and Abraham: A Marriage (In: The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon )
- "Not Much of Me": Abraham Lincoln as a Typical American*
- Parallel Lives: Abraham and Mary Lincoln
- The South Has Been Wronged: James Buchanan and the Secession Crisis (In: James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War )
- Women and the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1920
Awards and honors
In 1976, Baker was elected an American Council of Learned Societies fellow. In 1979, she won a faculty teaching prize at Goucher College. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982 and won the Berkshire Prize in History in 1983 for her book Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Baker won the Willie Lee Rose prize in Southern History in 1989. She was a 1991 Newberry Library fellow.[1]
Personal life
Baker lives in Baltimore.[1] On September 12, 1953, she married Ralph Robinson Baker,[1] a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University.[6] They have four children,[6] Susan Dixon, Robinson Scott, Robert Walker, Jean Harvey.[1] Baker is a Democrat and an Episcopalian, and enjoys playing tennis and swimming. As a hobby, Baker reads mystery stories.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Baker, Jean Hogarth Harvey 1933-". Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. January 1, 2004. Archived from the original on April 15, 2018 – via HighBeam.
- ^ a b c "Organization of American Historians: Jean Baker". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- ^ "History | Goucher College". Goucher College. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- ^ "Insane, or just difficult?". The New York Times. September 13, 1987.
- ^ Parks, Sheri (July 12, 2018). "Jean Baker". WYPR. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
- ^ a b Kaplan, Laurie (March 19, 1998). "Jean Baker, a wealth of historical stories". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved April 15, 2018.