Barnes, Mary Sheldon, 1850-1898
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- Organization: (lcsh) Wellesley College
- Organization: (lcsh) Stanford University
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found: nuc88-60034: Her Studies in American History ... [MI] 1892(hdg. on CtY rept.: Barnes, Mary Downing (Sheldon) Mrs., 1850-1898; usage: Mary Sheldon Barnes)
found: OCLC, viewed February 18, 2017(headings: Barnes, Mary Downing Sheldon, 1850-1898; Sheldon, Mary D.)
found: Mary Sheldon Barnes papers, viewed February 18, 2017(Mary Downing Sheldon was born in Oswego, New York, on September 15, 1850. In late 1876 she was invited to teach history at Wellesley College where she remained for two and one half years. Her teaching methods, unorthodox for the time and later called the source method... On August 6, 1885, she married a former student, Earl Barnes... Mary joined the Stanford history department in March 1892; Mary Sheldon Barnes died of heart disease in London, August 27, 1898. According to the author of Barnes' biography in Notable American Women, "[her importance] in American educational history rests chiefly upon her often misunderstood source method) - http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss2_bioghist.html
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1988-06-14: new
2023-05-02: revised
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