Harvard University, Ph.D., 1968 (History).
Radcliffe College, A.M., 1944.
Swarthmore College, A.B., 1943. High Honors in History.

Professional Experience

1967-present. Historian, Historic St. Mary's City, State of Maryland.
1982-present. Adjunct Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
1988-present. Senior Adjunct Scholar, Maryland State Archives.
1989-present. Historian, Maryland Historical Trust.

Memberships

American Historical Association (Research Division, 1980-1982).
Organization of American Historians (Committee on Historic Sites, 1971-1973; Nominating Committee, 1985-1986).
Economic History Association (Nominating Committee, 1982-1983, 1991-1992; Committee on Research in Economic History, 1988-1990; President Elect, 1989-1990; President, 1990- 1991; Trustee, 1992-1994).
Social Science History Association
Institute for Early American History and Culture (Council, 1980-1982)

Publications

Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689-1692 (Ithaca, N. Y., 1974). With David W. Jordan.

Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland (Chapel Hill, 1991). With Russell R. Menard and Lorena S. Walsh. Winner of the Maryland Historical Society Book Prize, 1993; Alice Hanson Jones Prize, given by the Economic History Association for an outstanding book published in North American Economic History during 1991-1992.


"The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 34 (1977): 542-57l. With Lorena S. Walsh. Reprinted in thirteen collections. Voted by readers of the Quarterly to be one of eleven most influential articles published over the first 50 years of the third series.

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