Willie Lee Rose

Rose was born as Willie Lee Nichols on May 18, 1927 in Moneta, Virginia.[1][2] She grew up in Bedford, Virginia.[2]

Rose graduated from University of Mary Washington, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1947.[1] She earned a PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University in 1962.[1]

Rose was a history professor at the University of Virginia until 1973, when she returned to Johns Hopkins University as faculty. She was a history professor at Johns Hopkins until 1992.[2] She was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 1977.[1][3]

Rose authored several books about slavery and the Reconstruction Era.[1] She won the Allan Nevins Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and the Troyer Steele Anderson Prize from the American Historical Association in 1991.[1][2]

Rose married William G. Rose in 1949. He predeceased her in 1985.[1]

Rose died on June 20, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland, at 91.[1][2]

• Rose, Willie Rose; Woodward, C. Vann (1976). Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195198829. OCLC 1038448111.
• Rose, Willie Lee (1982). Slavery and Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195029697. OCLC 966044365.
• Rose, Willie Lee (1999). A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820320656. OCLC 492259031.