from The Johns Hopkins University in 1965[1] alongside fellow historian David Herbert Donald.
[3][2] She also taught courses at the Maryland Correctional Institution - Jessup (MCI-J) as part of the Goucher Prison Education Partnership.
She wrote stories on suffragists including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Frances Willard.
She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1982 and won the Berkshire Prize in History in 1983 for her book Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
[1] On September 12, 1953, she married Ralph Robinson Baker,[1] a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University.
[6] They have four children,[6] Susan Dixon, Robinson Scott, Robert Walker, Jean Harvey.