Catherine Allgor
{{short description|Historian of early America}}
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| occupation = Historian, author
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| nationality = American
| education = Mount Holyoke College
Yale University (PhD)
| period = 18th–19th century
| genre = non-fiction, history
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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. From 2017 until 2024, she 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.masshist.org/president |title=President Catherine Allgor |website=Massachusetts Historical Society |date= |author= |access-date= February 16, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://trulyamazingwomen.com/the-women/catherine-allgor-author-historian/ |title=Interview: Catherine Allgor, professor, Dolley Madison biographer |website=Truly Amazing Women |date= |author= |access-date= February 16, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1442/catherine-allgor/ |title=Catherine Allgor: OAH Distinguished Lecturer Profile |website=Organization of American Historians |date= |author= |access-date= February 16, 2021}}
Works
Books
- Allgor, C. (2000). Parlor Politics: In which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government. University of Virginia Press.{{cite book |url=https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2224 |title=Book Website. Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government |website=University of Virginia Press |isbn=9780813919980 |access-date= February 16, 2021|last1=Allgor |first1=Catherine |year=2000 |publisher=University Press of Virginia }}{{ efn|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. }}{{ efn|Academic journal reviews for Parlor Politics: In which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government:{{Cite journal| volume = 126| issue = 3| pages = 504–506| last1 = Allgor| first1 = Catherine| last2 = Gundersen| first2 = Joan R.| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2002| jstor = 20093555| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/20093555}}{{Cite journal| volume = 36| issue = 2| pages = 473–475| last1 = Isenberg| first1 = Nancy| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = Journal of Social History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2002| doi = 10.1353/jsh.2003.0020| jstor = 3790122| s2cid = 142752685| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/3790122| url-access = subscription}}{{Cite journal| volume = 13| issue = 2| pages = 78–79| last1 = Arnbeck| first1 = Bob| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = Washington History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2001| jstor = 40073379| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/40073379}}{{Cite journal| volume = 88| issue = 3| pages = 1058| last1 = Norton| first1 = Mary Beth| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = The Journal of American History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2001| doi = 10.2307/2700421| jstor = 2700421| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/2700421}}{{Cite journal| volume = 58| issue = 3| pages = 764–769| last1 = Branson| first1 = Susan| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| last3 = Varon| first3 = Elizabeth R.| title = 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| journal = The William and Mary Quarterly| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2001| doi = 10.2307/2674315| jstor = 2674315| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/2674315| url-access = subscription}}{{Cite journal| volume = 103| issue = 4| pages = 374–377| last1 = Warshauer| first1 = Matthew| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = The South Carolina Historical Magazine| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2002| jstor = 27570603| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/27570603}}{{Cite journal| volume = 78| issue = 3| pages = 392–393| last1 = Jabour| first1 = Anya| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = The North Carolina Historical Review| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2001| jstor = 23522346| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/23522346}}{{Cite journal| volume = 109| issue = 1| pages = 99–100| last1 = Tyler| first1 = Pamela| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2001| jstor = 4249898| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/4249898}}{{Cite journal| volume = 68| issue = 3| pages = 688–689| last1 = Lewis| first1 = Charlene M. Boyer| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government| journal = The Journal of Southern History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2002| doi = 10.2307/3070179| jstor = 3070179| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/3070179| url-access = subscription}} }}
- Allgor, C. (2006). A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation. MacMillan/Henry Holt & Co.{{cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805083002 |title=A Perfect Union |website=MacMillan Publishing |date= |author= |access-date= February 16, 2021}} {{ efn|Academic journal reviews for A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation:{{Cite journal| volume = 82| issue = 4| pages = 267| last1 = Hackett| first1 = Mary A.| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation| journal = The Virginia Quarterly Review| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2006| jstor = 26444637| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/26444637}}{{Cite journal| volume = 16| issue = 4| pages = 767–782| last = Sheeler| first = Kristina Horn| others = Kristie Miller, Joan E. Cashin, Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer, Mary C. Brennan, Catherine Allgor (eds.)| title = Remembering the Rhetorical First Lady| journal = Rhetoric and Public Affairs| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2013| doi = 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767| jstor = 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.4.0767| url-access = subscription}} }}
- Cutts, M. E. E., & Allgor, C. (2012). The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s life of Dolley Madison. University of Virginia Press.{{cite book |url=https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4370 |title=The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison |isbn=9780813932989 |access-date= February 16, 2021|last1=Cutts |first1=Mary Estelle Elizabeth |year=2012 |publisher=University of Virginia Press }}{{Cite journal| volume = 80| issue = 1| pages = 155–156| last1 = Haulman| first1 = Kate| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| last3 = Roberts| first3 = Cokie| title = Review of The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison. Jeffersonian America| journal = The Journal of Southern History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2014| jstor = 23796865| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/23796865}}
- Allgor, C. (2013). Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity. Routledge.{{cite web |url=https://www.routledge.com/Dolley-Madison-The-Problem-of-National-Unity/Allgor/p/book/9780813347592 |title=Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity – 1st Edition – Catherin |website=Routledge |date= |author= |access-date= February 16, 2021}}{{ efn|Academic journal reviews for Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity:{{Cite journal| volume = 47| issue = 1| pages = 131–132| last1 = Sundberg| first1 = Sara Brooks| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity| journal = The History Teacher| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2013| jstor = 43264191| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/43264191}}{{Cite journal| volume = 44| issue = 4| pages = 554–556| last1 = Westerkamp| first1 = Marilyn J.| last2 = McMahon| first2 = Lucia| last3 = Allgor| first3 = Catherine| title = Review of Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic; Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity| journal = The Journal of Interdisciplinary History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2014| doi = 10.1162/JINH_r_00632| jstor = 43829548| s2cid = 141328964| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/43829548| url-access = subscription}}{{Cite journal| volume = 80| issue = 2| pages = 459–460| last1 = McMahon| first1 = Lucia| last2 = Allgor| first2 = Catherine| title = Review of Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity. Lives of American Women| journal = The Journal of Southern History| access-date = February 16, 2021| date = 2014| jstor = 23799176| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/23799176}} }}
- 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.{{Cite book| publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Ltd| isbn = 978-1-118-52438-1| pages = 445–467| last1 = Allgor| first1 = Catherine| last2 = Heffron| first2 = Margery M.| title = A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams| chapter = A Monarch in a Republic| access-date = February 17, 2021| date = 2013| doi = 10.1002/9781118524381.ch22| chapter-url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118524381.ch22}}
- 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.{{Cite book| publisher = University of Georgia Press| isbn = 978-0-8203-4264-1| last1 = Kierner| first1 = Cynthia A.| last2 = Treadway| first2 = Sandra Gioia| title = Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times| access-date = February 17, 2021| date = 2016| jstor = j.ctt189tswb| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt189tswb}}
- Allgor, C. (2018). "Remember... I'm Your Man": Masculinity, Marriage, and Gender in Hamilton. In R. C. Romano, & C. B. Potter (Eds.), [https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813590332 Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past]. Rutgers University Press.{{Cite web| title = Historians on Hamilton| work = Rutgers University Press| access-date = February 17, 2021| url = http://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/historians-on-hamilton/9780813590295/}}
Journal articles
- Allgor, C. (1997). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24913402 "A Republican in a Monarchy": Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia]. Diplomatic History, 21(1), 15–43.
- Allgor, C. (2000). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40073433 "Queen Dolley" Saves Washington City]. Washington History, 12(1), 54–69.
- Allgor, C. (2012). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23546681 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). [https://doi.org/10.1086/679323 “Believing the Ladies Had Great Influence”: Early National American Women’s Patronage in Transatlantic Context]. American Political Thought, 4(1), 39–71.
See also
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External links
- [https://www.c-span.org/person/?catherineallgor Catherine Allgor]. C-SPAN
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_Qnvel1Dc Political women in the early United States], National Library of Scotland.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BBoTByttBg Finding Dolley: A Lesson on Why We Should Study First Ladies], Southern Methodist University.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPmr3EGrIcc Ghosts in the Machinery: Women and the U.S. Constitution], Georgetown University.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NnilbgigoY Dolley Madison as First Laby], James Madison Memorial Foundation.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=604xBcvODcQ Dolley Madison: Republican Queen], James Madison Memorial Foundation.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DV_o1NNyM Coverture: the Word Every American Should Know, with Catherine Allgor for NHA University], Nantucket History.
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