Anne Firor Scott

Scott was born April 24, 1921, in Montezuma, Georgia.^[4]

She earned her PhD from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1958.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Scott was appointed to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the status of women in 1965.^[12]

She taught part-time at both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before teaching full-time at Duke University. In 1980 she became the first female chair of the history department at Duke. She retired from teaching at Duke in the early 1990s.^[13][12]

She was the president of the Organization of American Historians from 1983 to 1984,^[14] and the president of the Southern Historical Association in 1989.^[15]

• The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930 (1970)
• Women in American Life (1970)
• The American woman: who was she? (Eyewitness accounts of American history series) (1971)
• One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage (with Andrew M. Scott) (1975)
• What, then, is the American; this new woman? (1978)
• Women in American History : a Bibliography (Scott only wrote the introduction; the editor is Cynthia E. Harrison) (1979)
• Making the Invisible Woman Visible (1984)
• “Women in the South,” with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall in Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham, ed. John B. Boles and Evelyn T. Nolen (Baton Rouge, 1987), 454–509.
• Foreword, When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte (Earl Schenck Miers is the editor and Emma LeConte is the author) (1987)
• Virginia Women: The First Two Hundred Years (with Suzanne Lebsock) (1988)
• Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History (1992)
• Foreword, The Hard-Boiled Virgin (Frances Newman is the author of the book) (1993)
• Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women (1993)
• Introduction, Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (Author is Julia Cherry Spruill) (1998)
• Introduction, Votes for Women: A 75th Anniversary Album (Authors are Ellen DuBois and Karen Kearns) (1999)
• Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Microform (Research Collections in Women's Studies) (Anne Firor Scott, Daniel Lewis, and Martin Paul Schipper were editors; authors are University Publications of America and University of Texas at Austin Center for American History) (2000)
• The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention (author is Judith Wellman; Anne Firor Scott and Nancy Hewitt were editors) (Women in American History Series) (2005)
• Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White (2006)
• Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South (with Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain) (2011)
• Preface, Never Ask Permission: Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond, A Memoir by Mary Buford Hitz (Author is Mary Buford Hitz) (2012)^[1][16]