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Gloria Lund Main (née Lund; born 1933) is an American economic historian who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Colorado Boulder. She authored two books about the Thirteen Colonies.

Life

Gloria Jean Lund was born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lund of Mount Hermon, California. She graduated from Analy High School. Lund completed her bachelor's degree at San Jose State College (now San Jose State University). She was an economics graduate student at University of California, Berkeley where she was the only female graduate student. In 1956, Lund paused her studies to marry her former undergraduate professor, Jackson Turner Main, a grandson of historian Frederick Jackson Turner. After their three children were school aged, she earned a M.A. from Stony Brook University.

Influenced by her husband's field of study, Main completed a Ph.D. in American history at Columbia University. Her 1972 dissertation on personal wealth in the Thirteen Colonies was the basis of her first book. She applies her economics training to her studies of colonial time periods. After a few years of lecturing part time in the New York area, Main joined the faculty at University of Colorado Boulder. As of 2015, she is a professor emeritus.

Selected works

Books

• Main, Gloria Lund (1982). Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04693-8. OCLC 1012073027.
• Main, Gloria L. (2001). Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00628-7. OCLC 1170133235.

Articles

• Main, Gloria L. (1975). "Probate Records as a Source for Early American History". The William and Mary Quarterly. 32 (1): 89–99. doi:10.2307/1922595. JSTOR 1922595.
• Main, Gloria L. (1994). "Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England". The William and Mary Quarterly. 51 (1): 39–66. doi:10.2307/2947004. JSTOR 2947004.

References

1. ^ "Gloria Main Earns Doctorate". Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1972-12-05. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ "Vital Statistics: Marriage Licenses Issued". The Times. 1956-06-16. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Do you know where these people are?". Sonoma West Times and News. 1976-04-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Obituary for Jackson Turner Main, 1917-2003". Wisconsin State Journal. 2003-10-26. p. 49. Retrieved 2021-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ Pasquale, Cynthia (2015-08-06). "Five questions for Gloria Main". CU Connections. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
6. Main, Gloria L (1972). Personal wealth in colonial American; explorations in the use of probate records from Maryland and Massachusetts, 1650-1720 (Ph.D. thesis). New York: Columbia University. OCLC 79985693.
7. Reviews of Tobacco Colony:
   • Bergstrom, Peter V. (June 1984). "Leah and Rachel revisited: Everyday life in the colonial Chesapeake". Reviews in American History. 12 (2): 176–181. doi:10.2307/2702434. JSTOR 2702434.
   • Clifton, James M. (1984). Southern Economic Journal. 51 (1): 284–285. doi:10.2307/1058343. ISSN 0038-4038. JSTOR 1058343.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Earle, Carville (1983). The American Historical Review. 88 (5): 1318. doi:10.2307/1904995. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1904995.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Galenson, David W. (1984). Business History Review. 58 (1): 137–138. doi:10.2307/3114539. ISSN 0007-6805. JSTOR 3114539. S2CID 154119333.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Gerlach, Larry R. (1983). The History Teacher. 17 (1): 155. doi:10.2307/493255. ISSN 0018-2745. JSTOR 493255.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Herndon, G. Melvin (1984). Agricultural History. 58 (4): 634–635. ISSN 0002-1482. JSTOR 3742817.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Kelly, Kevin P. (1984). William and Mary Quarterly. 41 (4): 653–658. doi:10.2307/1919160. ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 1919160.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Shammas, Carole (1984). Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 92 (3): 355–356. ISSN 0042-6636. JSTOR 4248734.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Menard, Russell R. (1984). The Journal of Economic History. 44 (1): 208–209. doi:10.1017/S0022050700031612. ISSN 0022-0507. JSTOR 2120580. S2CID 153916941.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Price, Jacob Myron (1984). Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14 (4): 875–877. doi:10.2307/203491. ISSN 0022-1953. JSTOR 203491.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Simmons, R. C. (1984). The Economic History Review. 37 (1): 157–158. doi:10.2307/2596867. ISSN 0013-0117. JSTOR 2596867.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Stiverson, Gregory A. (1984). Journal of Southern History. 50 (1): 105–107. doi:10.2307/2208730. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2208730.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Whittenburg, James P. (1983). The Journal of American History. 70 (3): 646. doi:10.2307/1903504. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1903504.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
8. Reviews of Peoples of a Spacious Land:
   • Bloch, Ruth H. (2003). Journal of Marriage and Family. 65 (4): 1082–1083. ISSN 0022-2445. JSTOR 3599913.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Crane, Elaine Forman (2002). The American Historical Review. 107 (4): 1221. doi:10.1086/532715. ISSN 0002-8762.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Ferguson, Megan C. (2005). Journal of American Studies. 39 (2): 330–331. doi:10.1017/S0021875805420216. ISSN 0021-8758. S2CID 146497182.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Flynn, David T. (2002). The Journal of Economic History. 62 (2): 613–615. ISSN 0022-0507. JSTOR 2698220.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Games, Alison (2003). Social History. 28 (3): 418–420. ISSN 0307-1022. JSTOR 4287025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Häberlein, Mark (2005). Amerikastudien / American Studies. 50 (3): 541–542. ISSN 0340-2827. JSTOR 41158175.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Kaplan, Catherine O. (2003). The Historian. 65 (4): 1009–1010. ISSN 0018-2370. JSTOR 24452478.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Lombard, Anne S. (2002). Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 100 (2): 207–209. ISSN 0023-0243. JSTOR 23384694.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Silverman, David J. (2002). The New England Quarterly. 75 (4): 688–693. doi:10.2307/1559874. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 1559874.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Smith, S. D. (2002). The Economic History Review. 55 (3): 587. ISSN 0013-0117. JSTOR 3091705.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (July 2002). "New England's population bomb". William and Mary Quarterly. 59 (3): 725–728. doi:10.2307/3491473. JSTOR 3491473.
   • Zuckerman, Michael (2002). The Journal of American History. 89 (2): 610–611. doi:10.2307/3092190. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 3092190.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

• University of Colorado Boulder faculty
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• Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• 20th-century American historians
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• 1933 births
• Stony Brook University alumni
• 20th-century American women writers
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• 21st-century American women
• San Jose State University alumni