Violet Barbour (July 5, 1884 Cincinnati, Ohio - August 31, 1968) was an American historian.

Education

She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.

Career

Beginning in 1914, she taught at Vassar College as a professor of English and European history.^[1]

Awards

• 1925 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1913 Herbert Baxter Prize by the American Historical Association

Selected works

• Privateers and pirates of the West Indies, Cornell University, 1909
• Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century, University of Michigan Press, 1950
• Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II, American Historical Association, 1915