Solomon, Barbara Miller

Barbara Miller Solomon, historian, received her A.B. (1940) and Ph.D. (1953) from Radcliffe College. She was Director of the Radcliffe Seminars (1959-1963), Director of the Schlesinger Library (then the Women's Archives) (1960-1965), and first woman dean of Harvard College (Assistant Dean, 1971-1973). As Senior Lecturer in American Civilization, she taught the first courses in women's history at Harvard University.

Barbara Miller Solomon (1919-): educator and author, Senior Lecturer on History and Literature and the History of American Civilization at Harvard University (Radcliffe, B.A., 1940, Ph.D., 1953). Solomon was the director of the Women's Archives (now the Schlesinger Library), 1959-1965; teaches courses on American women's history; and has published several books, including In the Company of Educated Women (1985). She was appointed to the Special Committee on the Status of Women by Governor Endicott Peabody in 1964, and to the Commission on the Status of Women by Governor Francis W. Sargent in 1971.

Barbara Miller Solomon, historian, received her A.B. (1940) and Ph.D. (1953) from Radcliffe College. She was Director of the Radcliffe Seminars (1959-1963), Director of the Schlesinger Library (then Women's Archives) (1960-1965), and first woman Dean of Harvard College (Assistant Dean, 1971-1973). As Senior Lecturer in American Civilization, she taught the first courses in women's history at Harvard University. Her publications include Ancestors and Immigrants (1956), Pioneers in Service (1956), Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York (ed. 1969), and In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985).

Barbara Solomon was the director of the Women's Archives (later the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College) from 1959 to 1963. She was invited by Lady Bird Johnson to the second White House Luncheon for Lady Doers on February 19, 1964.