About Violet Barbour
Lived 1884 – 1968 (aged 84). Violet Barbour was an American historian and university teacher.
Violet Barbour (July 5, 1884 Cincinnati, Ohio – August 31, 1968) was an American historian.
Education She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
Career Beginning in 1914, she taught at Vassar College as a professor of English and European history.
Awards 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the American Historical Association
Selected works Privateers and pirates of the West Indies, Cornell University, 1909 Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century, University of Michigan Press, 1950 Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II, American Historical Association, 1915
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Who was Violet Barbour?
American historian (1884–1968)
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Violet Barbour was born on 5 July 1884 in Cincinnati.
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Violet Barbour died on 31 August 1968.
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Violet Barbour was a historian and university teacher.
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