Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita of American History at Cornell University. Her books include the Pulitzer Prize–finalist Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power in the Forming of American Society; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, winner of the George Washington Prize; In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692; and Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women.