Bogue, Margaret Beattie 1924-

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BOGUE, Margaret Beattie 1924-


PERSONAL: Born June 14, 1924, in Washington, DC; daughter of James Herbert and Maude Pearl (Rock) Beattie; married Allan G. Bogue (a professor of history), December 24, 1950; children: Susan Louise, Margaret Bogue Harper, Elinor E. Ethnicity: "Scotch-Irish." Education: University of Maryland at College Park, B.A., 1945; Cornell University, M.A., 1947, Ph. D., 1955. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Presbyterian. Hobbies and other interests: Environmental history.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1914 Vilas Ave., Madison, WI 53711. E-mail—bogueag@mhub.history.wisc.edu.


CAREER: Historian and educator. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, instructor in American political and cultural history, 1949-51; University of Western Ontario, London, instructor in history, 1951-52; University of Wisconsin—Madison, instructor, 1966-67, assistant professor, 1967-71, associate professor, 1971-76, professor of history, 1976-91, professor emeritus, 1991—. Wisconsin Historic Preservation Review Board, appointed member, 1990-94.


MEMBER: American Society for Environmental History, Agricultural History Society (fellow; president, 1984), Organization of American Historians, Wisconsin State Historical Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow at Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, 1972; Wisconsin Library Association book award, 1986; award for meritorious course development, National University Continuing Education Association, 1987.


WRITINGS:


Patterns from the Sod, Illinois State Historical Library, 1959.

(Associate editor and contributor) The Frontier inAmerican Development, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1969.

(With Virginia A. Palmer) Around the Shores of LakeSuperior, University of Wisconsin, 1979.

Around the Shores of Lake Michigan, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 1985.

Exploring Wisconsin's Waterways, State of Wisconsin, 1990.

(Editor with husband, Allan G. Bogue, and contributor) The Jeffersonian Dream, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1996.

Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History,1783-1933, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals.


WORK IN PROGRESS: Rewriting Around the Shores of Lake Superior; research on the lumber men of Wisconsin.

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