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Mary Ellen Pethel

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Mary Ellen Pethel is an educator, author, and historian. She currently teaches in the social science department at the Harpeth Hall School and serves as the school archivist. In addition, she teaches as an adjunct in the honors program at Belmont University. Pethel is also a historical consultant for the West End Home Foundation. She received her BA from the University of Tennessee, MEd from Berry College, and PhD from Georgia State University.

Mary Ellen Pethel Books

Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee's Trailblazers book cover

Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee's Trailblazers

Mary Ellen Pethel
Tennessee Women book cover

Tennessee Women

Beverly Greene Bond
All-Girls Education from Ward Seminary to Harpeth Hall, 1865–2015 book cover

All-Girls Education from Ward Seminary to Harpeth Hall, 1865–2015

Mary Ellen Pethel
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