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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Academic journal reviews for A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation: [15] [16]
- ↑ Academic journal reviews for Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity: [20] [21] [22]
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{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ↑ 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.
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "A Perfect Union". MacMillan Publishing. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sheeler, Kristina Horn (2013). Kristie Miller, Joan E. Cashin, Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer, Mary C. Brennan, Catherine Allgor (eds.). "Remembering the Rhetorical First Lady". Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 16 (4): 767–782. doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767. JSTOR 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
- ↑ Cutts, Mary Estelle Elizabeth (2012). The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison. ISBN 9780813932989 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity – 1st Edition – Catherin". Routledge. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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