Catherine Allgor is an American historian focusing on women and early American history; she has written and lectured extensively on

Dolley Madison Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of b ...

and the founding generation of American women. From 2017 until 2024, she served as the president of the

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. Previously Allgor was appointed to the ''James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation'' by President

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and has served as the Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education at the

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in San Marino, California. Formerly she was a Professor of History and UC Presidential Chair at the

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, and has taught at

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, and

Simmons University Simmons University (previously Simmons College) is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1899 by clothing manufacturer John Simmons. In 2018, it reorganized its structure and changed its name to a ...

. Allgor was a Frances Perkins Scholar at

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and received her PhD from

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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.

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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
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