CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Betty L. Mitchell

Address: 56 Revell Avenue

Northampton, MA 0l060

l66 Cottonwood Street

Fairhaven, MA 02917

Telephone: (4l3)586-2093; (508)996-4355

Education: Douglass College, A.B., l969

University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.A., l972 (History); Ph.D. l979 (History)

Dissertation: PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR: A BIOGRAPHY OF EDMUND

RUFFIN

Employment: Mount Holyoke College

History Department

l977-l978

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

History Department

l978-l982, Assistant Professor;

l982-l988, Associate Professor;

l988-Present, Professor

Research and

Publication:

Books

Edmund Ruffin: A Biography. Bloomington,

Indiana: Indiana University Press, l98l.

Articles

"Lizzie Borden and the Cult of True Womanhood,"

Lizzie Borden Symposium, Bristol Community College,

Fall, l995.

"Out of the Glass House: Robert Todd Lincoln's

Crucial Decade, l865-l875," Timeline Magazine,

Publication of the Illinois Historical Society, Winter,

l988.

Southern Biography," Cyclopedia for Southern

Culture, University of North Carolina Press, l987.

"Mabel Dodge Luhan," Encyclopedia of World

Biography, l986.

"Superfluous Lags the Veteran on the Stage: The

Death of Edmund Ruffin," Virginia Cavalcade,

(Winter, l983), l26-l33.

"Realities Not Shadows: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn,

The Early Year," Civil War History, 20 (June, l974),

l0l-ll7.

"Massachusetts Reacts to John Brown's Raid," Civil

War History, l9 (March, l973), 65-79.

Papers and

Symposiums

"Massachusetts’ Antislavery Women," Rotch/Jones

House, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Summer Teachers

Institute, July 11, 2005.

"Keeping House for the Upper Classes, Rotch/Jones

Duff House, Whaling Museum "Portraits of a Port"

Summer Institute, July 21, l999 and August 2, 2000.

"Racial Stereotypes in Advertising," Faculty Senate

Conversations, Fall, l996

"Lizzie Borden and The Cult of True Womanhood,"

Lizzie Borden Conference, Bristol Community

College, Summer, l992

"What a Family: Relations Between Mary Todd

Lincoln and Robert Todd Lincoln," Springfield,

Illinois, Illinois State Museum, October 25, l987.

Part of a Mary Todd Lincoln symposium.

"Edmund Who?: Writing Biography," Charleston,

S.C., Fifth Citadel Conference on the South, April 9,

l987

"Out of the Glass House: Robert Todd Lincoln's

Crucial Decade, l865-l875," Manchester, Vermont,

July 25, l986. Symposium on "Abraham Lincoln and

His Family," sponsored by The Friends of Hildene,

July, l986.

Panelist: "Historians and Their Audience,"

University of Massachusetts Amherst, April l3,

l985. Sponsored by the UMASS Amherst History

Department.

Panelist: "Common Problems in Writing Biography,"

Westfield State College, June 2l, l985. Symposium:

"Biography, Family History, and Genealogy."

"Problems Facing the Biographer," Westfield State

College, June 2l, l985. Part of a symposium on

"Biography, Family History, and Genealogy."

"Edmund Ruffin," American Antiquarian Society,

October 29, l985. Part of the Public Lecture Series:

"Antebellum and civil War Lives--Biographer and

Their Subjects," sponsored in part by the

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and

Public Policy.

"Myth and Reality: The Nineteenth Century Cult of True Womanhood," Keene State College, guest

lecture for Professor Robert Wilson, August l, l985

"Why Write Biography?" American Antiquarian

Society, June l2, l985. Guest speaker.

Manuscript

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