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Lois Green Carr
Born	(1922-03-07)March 7, 1922 Holyoke, Massachusetts
Died	June 28, 2015(2015-06-28) (aged 93) Annapolis, Maryland
Cause of death	dementia complications
Education	A.B., Swarthmore College, 1943 A.M., Radcliffe College, 1944 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968
Occupation(s)	Historian, Archivist
Known for	founder of the Chesapeake school of early American history
Spouses	Allen R. Clark ​ (m. 1946⁠–⁠1962)​ Jack Ladd Carr ​ (m. 1963)​
Children	Andrew R. Clark
Parent(s)	Constance McLaughlin Green and Donald Ross Green

Ancestry

Lois Green Carr came from a family of historians and writers. Her maternal grandfather, Andrew C. McLaughlin, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1936 for his book, A Constitutional History of the United States. Her mother, Constance McLaughlin Green also won the Pulitzer Prize in History for her 1963 book, Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878.

Early life and education

She completed her doctorate in 1968 with her dissertation, County Government in Maryland, 1689-1709.

Bibliography

Books by Lois Green Carr

• Carr, Lois Green; Jordan, David W. (1974). Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689-1692. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801407931.
• Carr, Lois Green; Menard, Russell R.; Walsh, Lorena S. (1991). Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-1985-2.

Articles by Lois Green Carr

• Carr, Lois Green; Walsh, Lorena S. (October 1977). "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland". The William and Mary Quarterly. 34 (4). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 542–571. doi:10.2307/2936182. JSTOR 2936182.
• Menard, Russell R.; Carr, Lois Green; Walsh, Lorena S. (April 1983). "A Small Planter's Profits: The Cole Estate and the Growth of the Early Chesapeake Economy". The William and Mary Quarterly. 40 (2). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 171–196. doi:10.2307/1916877. JSTOR 1916877.
• Carr, Lois Green; Walsh, Lorena S. (January 1988). "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake". The William and Mary Quarterly. 45 (1). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 135–159. doi:10.2307/1922219. JSTOR 1922219.
• Carr, Lois Green (1988). "Diversification in the Colonial Chesapeake: Somerset County, Maryland, in Comparative Perspective". In Carr, Lois Green; Morgan, Philip D.; Russo, Jean B. (eds.). Colonial Chesapeake Society. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 342–388. ISBN 0-8078-1800-3.
• Carr, Lois Green; Menard, Russell R. (June 1989). "Land, Labor, and Economies of Scale in Early Maryland: Some Limits to Growth in the Chesapeake System of Husbandry". The Journal of Economic History. 49 (2). Economic History Association: 407–418. doi:10.1017/S0022050700008020. JSTOR 2124072.
• Carr, Lois Green (June 1992). "Emigration and the Standard of Living: The Seventeenth Century Chesapeake". The Journal of Economic History. 52 (2). Economic History Association: 271–291. doi:10.1017/S0022050700010731. JSTOR 2123108.
• Carr, Lois Green; Menard, Russell R. (January 1999). "Wealth and Welfare in Early Maryland: Evidence from St. Mary's County". The William and Mary Quarterly. 56 (1). Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: 95–120. doi:10.2307/2674596. JSTOR 2674596.

Secondary sources

• Kelly, Jacques (4 August 2015). "Lois Green Carr". Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Md. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
• Prudente, Tim (25 August 2015). "Maryland State Archives to Recognize Historian from Eastport". Capital Gazette. Annapolis, Md. Retrieved 14 April 2016.

Category:Historians of Colonial North America Category:American archivists