Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology

mnsss248 Constance McLaughlin Green Papers, 1954-1959 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-04-07 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Constance McLaughlin Green Papers, 1954-1959 Finding Aid MS 67 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897- Constance McLaughlin Green Papers1954-1959 MS 67 1 box (.25 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Historian; Professor; Author. Small collection of correspondence, research notes, and a typescript of chapter from her book: Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (1956). Biographical Note

Born Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1897. A.B. Smith College, 1919; M.A. Mt. Holyoke College, 1925; Ph.D. Yale, 1937. Married Donald Ross Green. Taught history at the University of Chicago, and Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges. Authored the two-volume Washington: A History of the Capital, 1800-1950 (1962-63), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for history. Other books include: American Cities in the Growth of the Nation (1965); Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (1956); The Rise of Urban America (1965); The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nations Capital (1967).

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Small collection of correspondence, research notes, and a typescript of chapter from her book: Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (1956).

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Search Terms Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897- Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825 --Biography --Sources Historians--United States--Biography--Sources Women historians--United States--Biography--Sources Additional Information