Mary Beth Norton, Author . Knopf $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-40709-3
In her splendid re-creation of the notorious events of 1692, Cornell historian Norton (her Founding Mothers and Fathers
was a Pulitzer finalist) offers fresh and provocative insights into the much-studied Salem witchcraft trials. Using newly...
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Mary Beth Norton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42965-4
Defying an Anglo-American worldview that drew analogies between the family and the state as male-run, hierarchical institutions, women played important roles in colonial American society between 1620 and 1670. In her lively study, Cornell historian...
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Mary Beth Norton. Knopf, $32.50 (528p) ISBN 978-0-385-35336-6
Pulitzer Prize finalist Norton (Separated by Their Sex) presents a meticulous and persuasive chronicle of the “debates, disagreements, and disruptions” that shaped political discourse in colonial America prior to the Revolutionary War. Beginning...
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Mary Beth Norton. Princeton Univ, $24.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-691-25399-2
Norton (1774), a history professor emeritus at Cornell University, provides a colorful sampling of reader inquiries on romance originally printed in the late-17th-century English newssheet the Athenian Mercury, alongside responses from editor John...
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