in Municipalities (1915) A Short History of the American Labor Movement (1920) History of the United States (1921, with Charles Beard) The Rise of American Civilization (1927, with Charles Beard) The American Labor Movement: A Short History (1931) On Understanding Women (1931) America Through Women's Eyes (editor, 1933) "A Changing Political Economy as It Affects American Women" (1934) Laughing Their Way: Women's Humor in America (1934, coedited with Martha Bensley Bruiere The Making of American Civilization (1937, with Charles Beard) America in Midpassage (1939, with Charles Beard) The American Spirit: A Study of the Idea of Civilization in the United States (1942, with Charles Beard) Basic History of the United States (1944, with Charles Beard) Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946) The Force of Women in Japanese History (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1953). The Making of Charles Beard (1955). See also Coverture References Citations Sources Bair, Sarah, "Mary Ritter Beard, " in "Biographical" note in (Subscription required) Further reading Alvarado, Alice. "Left Out: Women's Role in Historiography and the Contribution of Mary Ritter Beard." (2012). online Jardins, Julie Des. Women and the historical enterprise in America : gender, race, and the politics of memory, 1880-1945, (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003) Smith, Bonnie G. "Seeing Mary Beard." Feminist Studies (1984): 399–416. in JSTOR Trigg, Mary. "To Work Together for Ends Larger than Self": The Feminist Struggles of Mary Beard and Doris Stevens in the 1930s." Journal of Women's History 7#2 (1995): 52–85. online Trigg, Mary K. Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2014) xii + 266 pp. online review Primary sources Mary Beard, Woman’s Work in Municipalities Mary Beard, A Short History of the American Labor Movement External links Mary Ritter Beard Papers, Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Mary Ritter Beard papers at Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections 1876 births 1958 deaths 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers American archivists Female archivists Burials at Ferncliff Cemetery DePauw University alumni Writers from Indianapolis American women's rights activists Columbia University alumni American suffragists American women historians People from Greencastle, Indiana American feminists Women's Trade Union League people Members of the Society of Woman Geographers Historians from Indiana American writers National Woman's Party activists Shortridge High School alumni