Martha Saxton

Martha Saxton is a professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who has authored several prominent historical biographies. In 2003, she wrote Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America.[1] The TV film The Jayne Mansfield Story featuring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger was based on her book Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties.[2] She also published findings of a classroom experiment on Wikipedia's inclusion of women in historical articles.[3]

Publications

Books

  • Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America, (Hill and Wang, 2003).
  • Interpretations of American History (seventh edition) with Frank Couvares (previously edited by Gerald Grob and George Billias), Free Press, Spring 2000.
  • Louisa May Alcott, Houghton Mifflin, 1977 (Avon, 1978; Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995).
  • Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties, Houghton Mifflin, 1976 (Bantam, 1976).

Essays, reviews, and other

  • "Lives of Missouri Slave Women: A Critique of true Womanhood," in eds. Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen, Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History, Columbia U. Press, forthcoming, 2007.
  • "Curing Gender Amnesia," Women's Review of Books 24.1 (Jan Feb 2007): 24.
  • "Masquerade: the Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier," by Alfred Young, in The William and Mary Quarterly, forthcoming.
  • "River Gods-and Goddesses. Women's Review of Books 21.9 (June 2004): 10.
  • "Neither Lady Nor Slave," The S.C. Historical Magazinheae, October 2004.
  • "La Formazione degli Stati Uniti," Journal of American History, February, 2004.
  • "Sexism and the City," Journal of Urban History, January, 2003.
  • "Examining our Revolutionary Baggage," Reviews in American History, December, 2000
  • "The Moral Minority, Prescriptive Literature in Early St. Louis," Gateway-Heritage, The Quarterly Magazine of the Missouri Historical Society (Fall 2000): 18-31.
  • "Women Without Rights," in Not for Ourselves Alone, ed. by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns (New York: A. A. Knopf, Inc., 1999), 52-57.
  • "Puritan Women: The Seeds of a Critical Tradition," History Today, 44.10 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 28-33.
  • "Civil War Nurses," in The Face of Mercy, A Photographic History of Medicine at War, ed. by Matthew Naythons, and William Styron (San Francisco: Epicenter, 1993).

Awards and honors

  • Whiting Travel Fellowship, 2012
  • Cullman Fellow, New York Public LIbrary, 2007–2008
  • Doshisha Lecturer, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (2006)
  • Miner D. Crary Award, Amherst College (2000-2001)
  • Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe College (1995-1996)
  • Mellon Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia (1988-1990)
  • Lane Cooper Award, Columbia (1987-1988)
  • Mary Ellen Shimke Award, Wellesley College (1986-1987)
  • Presidential Fellow, Columbia (1985–88)
  • Boston Globe Annual Award for Louisa May Alcott (1977)

Scholarly and professional activities

  • Member, Authors' Guild
  • Member, PEN, Secretary of PEN Executive Board, 1986-1989
  • Member, PEN/Martha Albrand Award Committee, 1992
  • Member, Willie Lee Rose Prize Committee, 1996 (Southern Association for Women's Historians)
  • Member, Julia Spruill Prize Committee, 1999 (Southern Association for Women's Historians)
  • Member, Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee, AHA, 2005-6
  • Co-founder and co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2006

References

Citation

  1. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: BEING GOOD: Women's Moral Values in Early America by Martha Saxton, Author . Hill and Wang $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-11011-6". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  2. ↑ "The Television Picture", The Milwaukee Journal, page 4, 1982-04-27
  3. ↑ Nawrotzki, Kristen, ed. (2013). "Writing History in the Digital Age". Digital Humanities. doi:10.3998/dh.12230987.0001.001.
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