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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.

Works

Books

• Allgor, C. (2000). Parlor Politics: In which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government. University of Virginia Press.
• Allgor, C. (2006). A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation. MacMillan/Henry Holt & Co.
• Cutts, M. E. E., & Allgor, C. (2012). The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s life of Dolley Madison. University of Virginia Press.
• Allgor, C. (2013). Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity. Routledge.
• Allgor, C., & M. M. Heffrom. (2013). A Monarch in a Republic. In D. Waldstreicher (Ed.), A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams. John Wiley and Sons.
• Allgor, C. (2016). Dolley Madison: A Case Study in Southern Style. In C. A. Kierner & S. G. Treadway (Eds.), Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times (Vol. 1). University of Georgia Press.
• Allgor, C. (2018). "Remember... I'm Your Man": Masculinity, Marriage, and Gender in Hamilton. In R. C. Romano, & C. B. Potter (Eds.), Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past. Rutgers University Press.

Journal articles

• Allgor, C. (1997). "A Republican in a Monarchy": Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia. Diplomatic History, 21(1), 15–43.
• Allgor, C. (2000). "Queen Dolley" Saves Washington City. Washington History, 12(1), 54–69.
• Allgor, C. (2012). Margaret Bayard Smith’s 1809 Journey to Monticello and Montpelier: The Politics of Performance in the Early Republic. Early American Studies, 10(1), 30–68.
• Allgor, C. (2015). “Believing the Ladies Had Great Influence”: Early National American Women’s Patronage in Transatlantic Context. American Political Thought, 4(1), 39–71.

See also

• Edith B. Gelles
• Amy S. Greenberg
• Monica Muñoz Martinez

References

Notes

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:
3. Academic journal reviews for A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation:
4. Academic journal reviews for Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity:

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.

External links

• Catherine Allgor. C-SPAN
• Political women in the early United States, National Library of Scotland.
• Finding Dolley: A Lesson on Why We Should Study First Ladies, Southern Methodist University.
• Ghosts in the Machinery: Women and the U.S. Constitution, Georgetown University.
• Dolley Madison as First Laby, James Madison Memorial Foundation.
• Dolley Madison: Republican Queen, James Madison Memorial Foundation.
• Coverture: the Word Every American Should Know, with Catherine Allgor for NHA University, Nantucket History.

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