Shortly after graduation, she started work as a researcher and historian by helping Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post (whose father owned the newspaper) prepare his book John Brown 1800–1859: A Biography Fifty Years After, a biography of John Brown, which was published in 1910.
Strax efter examen började hon arbeta som forskare och historiker genom att hjälpa Oswald Garrison Villard i New York Evening Post (vars far ägde tidningen) att förbereda sin bok John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After, en biografi över John Brown, som publicerades 1910.