Mary Virginia Duval (1850-1930)[1] was an American textbook author.
She was born in Rome, Georgia to James Calvin Duval and Almeda Melita.[2] Raised in Mississippi, she was educated in private schools. When she began teaching, she learned that most students learned U.S. history, but not the history of Mississippi and sought to remedy that. Her publications, including The Students' History of Mississippi (1886) and History of Mississippi and Civil Government (1892) were subsequently added to the state's curriculum in 1890.[3][4][5]
References
edit- ^ Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1981. ISBN 978-1-61703-418-3.
- ^ Revolution, Daughters of the American (1899). Lineage Book. Vol. 9. The Society. p. 24.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Society, Mississippi Historical (1901). Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. The Society. pp. 155–157.
- ^ Duval, Mary Virginia (1892). History of Mississippi and Civil Government. Courier-Journal print. Company.
- ^ Duval, Mary Virginia (1887). The Students' History of Mississippi: From Its Earliest Discoveries and Settlements to the End of the Year 1886. Courier-Journal Job Print. Company.
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