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Anne Firor Scott moved to Chapel Hill in 1958, when her husband Andrew Scott joined UNC's political science department, and took a temporary position in history at the university. The couple lived in the Highland Woods neighborhood for 47 years. She taught at Duke from 1961 to 1991 and died at her Chapel Hill home in 2019.
Source: Historical Society of North Carolina: Dr. Anne Firor Scott
1921–2019 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Candid portrait of the historian Anne Byrd Firor Scott, taken in 1991. Scott wrote on the history of Southern women and taught at Duke University. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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