Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Historian Janet Wilson James was born in New York City and received her BA from Smith College in 1939, her MA from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, and her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1954. Her dissertation, Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825, was published in 1981. In 1945 she married fellow historian Edward T. James, whom she had met through her studies with Arthur Schlesinger Sr.; they had two children: Ned (born in 1954) and Lucy (born in 1957). James taught at Mills College from 1950 to 1953 and at Wellesley College from 1954 to 1955. In 1961, she and her husband began editing Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary; this project occupied them for the next decade. She served as director of the Schlesinger Library from 1965 to 1969 and was also a member of the Library's Advisory Committee. In 1971, she joined the faculty of Boston College as an instructor in the history department; the first female member of that department, she taught courses on social, women's, and health care history, becoming a full professor in 1981. In later years her research focused on the history of nursing, particularly on the work of Lavinia Dock, a militant feminist nurse; she was the editor of A Lavinia Dock Reader, published in 1985. She was a member of many professional organizations, including the American Association for the History of Nursing and the Organization of American Historians, and was an active participant in the Berkshire Conferences on the History of Women. She died of cancer in Cambridge on June 10, 1987.. }
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- catalog description "Historian Janet Wilson James was born in New York City and received her BA from Smith College in 1939, her MA from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, and her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1954. Her dissertation, Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825, was published in 1981. In 1945 she married fellow historian Edward T. James, whom she had met through her studies with Arthur Schlesinger Sr.; they had two children: Ned (born in 1954) and Lucy (born in 1957). James taught at Mills College from 1950 to 1953 and at Wellesley College from 1954 to 1955. In 1961, she and her husband began editing Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary; this project occupied them for the next decade. She served as director of the Schlesinger Library from 1965 to 1969 and was also a member of the Library's Advisory Committee. In 1971, she joined the faculty of Boston College as an instructor in the history department; the first female member of that department, she taught courses on social, women's, and health care history, becoming a full professor in 1981. In later years her research focused on the history of nursing, particularly on the work of Lavinia Dock, a militant feminist nurse; she was the editor of A Lavinia Dock Reader, published in 1985. She was a member of many professional organizations, including the American Association for the History of Nursing and the Organization of American Historians, and was an active participant in the Berkshire Conferences on the History of Women. She died of cancer in Cambridge on June 10, 1987.".