Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Caroline Ware was born into a prominent white New England family with a strong activist tradition. Educated at Vassar and Harvard, she was a pioneering social historian. She worked on consumer affairs in the federal government during the New Deal and World War II while continuing her teaching career, most notably at Howard University. In the 1950s, she focused on grassroots community development in Latin America. In the early 1960s, she served on the President’s Commission on the Status of Women chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. Ware was interviewed for the Women in Federal Government Oral History Project undertaken by the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in the 1980s, an invaluable source for understanding her long and productive career.</jats:p>