Annette Kar Baxter

Annette Kar Baxter ( Kar; November 12, 1926 – September 18, 1983) was an historian of American history and an American women's history expert, professor, and author. She spent much of her career at Barnard College, where, beginning in 1966, she created and taught the first women's history courses to undergraduate students.

In addition to her career at Barnard, Baxter involved herself in many other organizations. She served on the board of trustees for Conference in Theology for College and University Faculty, Kirkland College (Clinton, New York) and Middlesex School (Concord, Massachusetts). She was a consultant for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, National Council of Women, and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. She served on committees for the American Association of University Women, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, and many others. She participated in panels and gave speeches on the value of women's history and women's education. She has been called "one of the nation's foremost authorities on the history of women."

Baxter published numerous book reviews and articles, and edited several series on women's autobiographies and women's studies. Baxter had four books in progress when she died in 1983. was born in 1962. The American Studies Association (ASA) created a prize in her name, the Annette K. Baxter Travel Grant, to provide partial travel reimbursement to students presenting papers at the annual ASA conference.

Henry Miller, Expatriate (1961) Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press . The Universal Self-Instructor and Manual of General Reference (1970) New York: Winter House [with Albert Ellery Berg] To Be a Woman in America: 1850 – 1930 (1978) New York: Times Books [with Constance Jacobs] Inwood House: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Service to Women (1980) New York: Inwood House [with Barbara Welter] Women's History (1984) New York: Markus Wiener