# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-beth-norton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:22:47.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-beth-norton"
name: "Mary Beth Norton"
slug: "mary-beth-norton"
description: "Mary Beth Norton is an American historian, specializing in American colonial history and well known for her work on women's history and the Salem witch trials. She is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emeritus of American History at the Department of History at Cornell University. The first woman to join the department of history at Cornell University, Norton is a pioneer of women historians not only in the United States but also in the world."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.193548387096773
  historical:           7.415156000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "玛丽·贝思·诺顿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماري بيث نورتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارى بيث نورتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Norton"
    title: "Mary Beth Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Norton"
    title: "Mary Beth Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Norton"
    title: "Mary Beth Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Norton"
    title: "Mary Beth Norton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%82"
    title: "Нортон, Мэри Бет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump