Mary Maples Dunn
Mary Maples Dunn is an American historian. Born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Dunn earned her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College, where she taught and served as Dean. She served as the eighth president of Smith College, for ten years beginning in 1985 in 2001 the college dedicated the Mary Maples Dunn Garden in recognition of her service and particularly her leadership on the colleges Landscape Master Plan. Retired, Dunn became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow. According to Ann M. Little, Dunn has also been the Director of the Schlesinger Library, the first Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and coExecutive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. While Dunns scholarship primarily concerned William Penn, Pennsylvania, and the history of Englishspeaking colonies in the middleAtlantic portion of what is now the United States, she was not guilty of the limited visions of those who understand colonial America to refer only to the original thirteen English coast on the Atlantic Co
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