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Mary Ritter Beard

1876 - 1958

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Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements. She also authored several books on women's role in history including On Understanding Women (1931), America Through Women's Eyes (editor, 1933), and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (1946), her major work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Ritter Beard has received more than 116,892 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mary Ritter Beard is the 535th most popular historian (down from 438th in 2019), the 11,468th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,568th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Mary Ritter Beard has had the most page views in the with 12,811 views, followed by Spanish (1,008), and French (864). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swahili (127.27%), Esperanto (51.65%), and French (42.11%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Mary Ritter Beard ranks 535 out of 561. Before her are James H. Billington, Jan Morris, Griselda Pollock, Elaine Pagels, John Komlos, and Richard Bauckham. After her are Iain Pears, Charles Oman, Richard Hofstadter, Warren Treadgold, Gábor Kósa, and Francis Parkman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Mary Ritter Beard ranks 201. Before her are Jānis Akuraters, James Larkin, John August Anderson, John Mulcahy, Susan Glaspell, and John T. Dillon. After her are Anna Hyatt Huntington, Sol Plaatje, William Farnum, James Kirkwood Sr., Con Leahy, and Sophia Duleep Singh. Among people deceased in 1958, Mary Ritter Beard ranks 193. Before her are Vilhelm Wolfhagen, Alfred Probst, Pat O'Connor, Walter Crickmer, Tris Speaker, and Friedrich Maurer. After her are Harold Smith, David Jack, James Branch Cabell, Russell Mockridge, Charles King, and Dunc Munro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Ritter Beard ranks 11,468 out of 20,380. Before her are Dale Crover (1967), Drew Fuller (1980), Pat Conroy (1945), Andy Dick (1965), Rod Milburn (1950), and Sepp Kuss (1994). After her are Hank Ballard (1927), Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876), Jason Behr (1973), Arthur Kopit (1937), John McCloskey (1810), and Michael Burry (1971).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Mary Ritter Beard ranks 46. Before her are Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), David Bordwell (1947), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Richard Taruskin (1945), James H. Billington (1929), and Elaine Pagels (1943). After her are Richard Hofstadter (1916), Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942), Bernard Bailyn (1922), and Stephen Kotkin (1959).

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