Rebecca More

Brown University

“The Roots of the White Mountain National Forest (1918) in 19th c. Agriculture”

Rebecca Weeks Sherrill More, PhD, Visiting Scholar in the Department of History Brown University,
received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown in History. She directed the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching at Learning at Brown from 1992 until her retirement in 2010. She served as Lecturer in History in the Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design teaching on gender and social history in Early Modern England from 1994 - 2014. She continues to work with senior Honors candidates at Brown on their thesis presentations. She also assists Plymouth State University History faculty in the development of a Township Legacy Project designed to raise public awareness of historic buildings and landscapes through the medium of tourism technology.

Her current research focuses on the social, economic and cultural history of Early Modern England and
Colonial America. Current research projects include: the social and political significance of “civic virtue” in English church memorials (1450-1700), and community values in early New England (1637-1800), with a specific focus on Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire during the transitional years from the colonial to Early Republican eras. Her publications include “The Settlement Maps of Early Lancaster New Hampshire: from Colonial Plantation to Republican Township” in Beyond the Notches: Stories of Place in New Hampshire’s North Country (Monadnock Institute, Franklin Pierce University, 2011), editing and writing for the Sheridan Center’s Teaching Exchange (1992-2010), The Rewards of Virtue (1998), the introduction to the 1989 edition of Horace Walpole’s essay On Modern Gardening (1780), articles in Lancaster NH history, and numerous book reviews.

Since 2008, she has given lectures and published articles on Congressman John Wingate Weeks, sponsor of the 1911 Weeks Act, which established the National Forest Reserves. In 2013 she appeared in two films on the Weeks Act, “The People’s Forest” (Moore-Huntley Productions) and “The Balancing Act,” (US Forest Service and Plymouth State University.

Dr. More currently serves as trustee of the Weeks Medical Center (Lancaster NH), the President’s Council
at Plymouth State University (Plymouth NH), the Advisory Council of the Museum of the White Mountains
Plymouth State University, and the Outreach committee for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (Concord NH).