Honoring Bestselling Author and Noted Historian Mary Beth Norton
Thursday, October 28, 2021
This program was made possible by the generous support of . . .
Platinum Benefactors
Mark Kimball Nichols and Lowell Massey Gold
Benefactors
Judith Avery, Capital Group Private Client Services
Silver Benefactors
Sumner E. Anderson
Thomas B. Hagen
Eastern Bank
Welch & Forbes LLC
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
Mary Beth Norton is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Emerita at Cornell University,
where she taught from 1971 to 2018. Her highly acclaimed works include 1774 (2020), In the Devil’s Snare (2002),
Founding Mothers & Fathers (1996), Liberty’s Daughters (1980, 1996), and The British-Americans (1972).
She is a co-author of A People and A Nation, a leading history textbook since its initial publication in 1982.
Professor Norton has received four honorary degrees and held fellowships from, among others, the Rockefeller
and Guggenheim Foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is an elected member of the
American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has served as president of the
American Historical Association (2018). She is a longtime member and friend of New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Hosted By
D. Brenton Simons is President & CEO of American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society,Vice Chair
of the Plymouth 400th Anniversary State Commission, and Secretary of the Board of Directors of The New England Quarterly.
Ryan J. Woods is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of American Ancestors and New England Historic
Genealogical Society and is Lieutenant Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.