Catherine Allgor

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Catherine Allgor
OccupationHistorian, author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Education Mount Holyoke College
Yale University (PhD)
Period18th–19th century
Genrenon-fiction, history
SubjectEarly American history

Catherine Allgor is an American historian focusing on women and early American history; she has written and lectured extensively on Dolley Madison and the founding generation of American women. Since 2017 she has served as the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Previously Allgor was appointed to the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation by President Barack Obama and has served as the Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Formerly she was a Professor of History and UC Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside, and has taught at Claremont McKenna College, Harvard University, and Simmons University. Allgor was a Frances Perkins Scholar at Mount Holyoke College and received her PhD from Yale University where she was awarded the Yale Teaching Award. Her dissertation was awarded best dissertation in American history at Yale and received the Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. Women's History. [1] [2] [3]

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  1. ↑ Parlor Politics was the winner of the James H. Broussard First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
  2. ↑ Academic journal reviews for Parlor Politics: In which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
  3. ↑ Academic journal reviews for A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation: [15] [16]
  4. ↑ Academic journal reviews for Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity: [20] [21] [22]

References

  1. ↑ "President Catherine Allgor". Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Interview: Catherine Allgor, professor, Dolley Madison biographer". Truly Amazing Women. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Catherine Allgor: OAH Distinguished Lecturer Profile". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  4. ↑ Allgor, Catherine (2000). Book Website. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government. University Press of Virginia. ISBN   9780813919980 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Allgor, Catherine; Gundersen, Joan R. (2002). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 126 (3): 504–506. JSTOR   20093555 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  6. ↑ Isenberg, Nancy; Allgor, Catherine (2002). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". Journal of Social History. 36 (2): 473–475. doi:10.1353/jsh.2003.0020. JSTOR   3790122. S2CID   142752685 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  7. ↑ Arnbeck, Bob; Allgor, Catherine (2001). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". Washington History. 13 (2): 78–79. JSTOR   40073379 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  8. ↑ Norton, Mary Beth; Allgor, Catherine (2001). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The Journal of American History. 88 (3): 1058. doi:10.2307/2700421. JSTOR   2700421 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  9. ↑ Branson, Susan; Allgor, Catherine; Varon, Elizabeth R. (2001). "Review of These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia; Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The William and Mary Quarterly. 58 (3): 764–769. doi:10.2307/2674315. JSTOR   2674315 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  10. ↑ Warshauer, Matthew; Allgor, Catherine (2002). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 103 (4): 374–377. JSTOR   27570603 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  11. ↑ Jabour, Anya; Allgor, Catherine (2001). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The North Carolina Historical Review. 78 (3): 392–393. JSTOR   23522346 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  12. ↑ Tyler, Pamela; Allgor, Catherine (2001). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 109 (1): 99–100. JSTOR   4249898 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  13. ↑ Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer; Allgor, Catherine (2002). "Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government". The Journal of Southern History. 68 (3): 688–689. doi:10.2307/3070179. JSTOR   3070179 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  14. ↑ "A Perfect Union". MacMillan Publishing. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  15. ↑ Hackett, Mary A.; Allgor, Catherine (2006). "Review of A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 82 (4): 267. JSTOR   26444637 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  16. ↑ Sheeler, Kristina Horn (2013). "Remembering the Rhetorical First Lady". Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 16 (4). Kristie Miller, Joan E. Cashin, Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer, Mary C. Brennan, Catherine Allgor (eds.): 767–782. doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767. JSTOR   10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  17. ↑ Cutts, Mary Estelle Elizabeth (2012). The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison. University of Virginia Press. ISBN   9780813932989 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  18. ↑ Haulman, Kate; Allgor, Catherine; Roberts, Cokie (2014). "Review of The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison. Jeffersonian America". The Journal of Southern History. 80 (1): 155–156. JSTOR   23796865 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity – 1st Edition – Catherin". Routledge. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  20. ↑ Sundberg, Sara Brooks; Allgor, Catherine (2013). "Review of Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity". The History Teacher. 47 (1): 131–132. JSTOR   43264191 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  21. ↑ Westerkamp, Marilyn J.; McMahon, Lucia; Allgor, Catherine (2014). "Review of Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic; Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 44 (4): 554–556. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_00632. JSTOR   43829548. S2CID   141328964 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  22. ↑ McMahon, Lucia; Allgor, Catherine (2014). "Review of Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity. Lives of American Women". The Journal of Southern History. 80 (2): 459–460. JSTOR   23799176 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  23. ↑ Allgor, Catherine; Heffron, Margery M. (2013). "A Monarch in a Republic". A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. pp. 445–467. doi:10.1002/9781118524381.ch22. ISBN   978-1-118-52438-1 . Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  24. ↑ Kierner, Cynthia A.; Treadway, Sandra Gioia (2016). Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times. University of Georgia Press. ISBN   978-0-8203-4264-1. JSTOR   j.ctt189tswb . Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  25. ↑ "Historians on Hamilton". Rutgers University Press. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
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