Kathleen Dalton
Kathleen Dalton
214 Massachusetts Ave. Lexington, MA 02420-4006
kdalton41salem@gmail.com
External Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University
Independent Scholar
Historian Kathleen Dalton wrote Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), a biography, and she has also published a book about Phillips Academy, the oldest boys’ boarding school in the U.S. and its recent coeducational climate and gender equity initiatives. She is working on a book about William and Caroline Phillips and their political friendship with Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.
EDUCATION:
Mills College
B.A. with honors in history
Johns Hopkins University
M.A. and Ph.D.
AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST:
U.S. history since 1861, biography, the Gilded Age and Progressive era, transnational history, Women’s history and gender studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History and Social Sciences Phillips Academy 1980 – 2015
Visiting Associate Professor: Department of History
Boston University
2007 – 2008
Co-director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies
Phillips Academy
2003 – 2010
Consulting Historian: Revised Interpretive Themes, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural
National Historic Site. Buffalo, New York 2007
Consulting Historian: National Park Service, Organization of American Historians’
Public History Office, including working on interpretive themes and speaking related
to Teaching American History Grants (public school teacher workshops.)
Massachusetts, New York, California, Minnesota, Virginia, etc. 2002 – 2011
Research Fellow: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2002 – 2003
Research Fellow: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Harvard University
Associate Fellow: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Harvard University
Affiliate Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard
University 1996 – 1997 1997 – 2001, 2002 – 2003, 2004 – 2005, 2012-2013 2013-2014
Instructor: A.L.M. Program. (teaching “Introduction to Graduate Study in Social
Science: Theodore Roosevelt and His Era”) Harvard University Extension School 1997 – 1999
Visiting Professor. Taught interdisciplinary course “The American Psyche”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1989 and 1990 summer session
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES:
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life: biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover, 2002; Vintage Books, paperback, February 2004; Recorded Books, December 2004.
The White Lilies and the Iron Boot: the Political Friendship of Caroline and William Phillips with Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, the history of a crucial political alliance in the New Deal era and World War II, in progress.
Theodore Roosevelt and his Sagamore Hill home: Historic Resource Study, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site / H.W. Brands, Kathleen Dalton, Lewis L. Gould, Natalie A. Naylor; Juliet Frey, editor; Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 2008.
Report for Reinterpreting Theodore Roosevelt and Sagamore Hill, prepared by Kathleen Dalton; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region, October 2004.
The Romance of Diplomacy: A Biography in Journals of Caroline Drayton Phillips: the newly released journals of a diplomat’s wife: her observations about major historical figures of the twentieth century, including Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, in progress.
A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover: The history and sociology of gender at the oldest boys’ boarding school in America and the equity policies that brought gradual change after the school became coeducational in 1973. Originally published by Trustees of Phillips Academy in 1986, republished in 1999 by iUniverse.
ARTICLES :
“Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era,” in A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Wiley Blackwell, in press for 2017, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt,” Oxford encyclopedia of military and diplomatic history, Oxford University Press, 2013, (invited).
“The Bull Moose Party,” Oxford encyclopedia of American political, policy, and legal history, Oxford University Press, 2012, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt’s Contradictory Legacies: From Imperialist Nationalism to Advocacy of a Progressive Welfare State,” A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, Serge Ricard, editor, New York: Wiley:Blackwell Co., 2011, (invited).
Blog entry: “Emulate Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt,” in “Historians’ Advice for Dick Cheney,” New York Times on-line, Room for Debate, June 27, 2009, (invited).
Blog entry: “TOPIC A: The Next 100 Days,” The Washington Post, April 24, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR20090424 03647.html , (invited).
“A ‘bully’ Roosevelt fought for the little man,” The Free Lance-Star, A9, Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 11, 2008, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt: the Making of a Reformer,” History Now, on-line journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Issue Seventeen, September 2008, http://www.historynow.org/09_2008/historian3.html , (invited).
“What Would Change If a Woman Were President?” History News Network post, February, 2008. http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/47038.html .
“Teaching American Reform in World Context,” America On The World Stage: Essays on the Teaching of the United States History Survey, University of Illinois Press, 2008, (invited by the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians).
“Theodore Roosevelt,” Roger K. Newman, ed., The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, (invited).
“Thoughts on ‘biography as history’ from visiting professor,” News of the History Department at Boston University, October 2007, 10-12, (invited).
“Finding Theodore Roosevelt: a Personal and Political Story,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6:4 October 2007, 1-21, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt: The Self-Made Man,” Time Magazine, Vol. 168, #1, p. 48-50, July 3, 2006, (invited).
“Bridge-Builder,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Vol. XXVI, #3, 2005, 12-13, (invited).
“There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of his Blind Ambition in 1912,” paper given at “Defining History: Critical American Elections” conference, May 2008; published by Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home, Manchester, VT, (invited).
“Why Gays Should Be Allowed to Say ‘I Do’,” History News Network, February 27, 2004, http://hnn.us/articles/3799.html ; followed by a Scripps-Howard article by Lance Gay, which publicized the article in publications such as Newsday across the country, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt: Lover of Stories,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 25 (4): 3-9, 2003, (invited).
“For T.R., Government Was the Solution,” New York Times, Week in Review, The Nation, Section 4:5, July 14, 2002.
“Sin, Sex and Censorship: Theodore Roosevelt and Moral Reform,” a talk and later article in a conference book edited by Douglas Brinkley and John Gable, The Big Stick and the Square Deal: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, a celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of TR’s Presidency, Canisius College, September 18, 2002, (in press); broadcast on C-SPAN.
“Between the Diplomacy of Imperialism and the Achievement of World Order by Supranational Mediation: Ethnocentrism and Theodore Roosevelt’s Changing Views of World Order,” paper given at “Ethnocentrism and Diplomacy: America and the World in the 20th Century” conference, the Observatoire De La Politique Etrangere Americaine, Institut du Monde Anglophone, University of Paris, Sorbonne NouvelleIII, January, 2000; later printed in Pierre Melandri and Serge Ricard, eds. Ethnocentrisme et diplomatie: l’Amerique et le monde au XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2001, (invited).
With E. Anthony Rotundo, “Teaching Gender Studies to High School Students,” the challenges of teaching basic historical and social science studies of gender to advanced high school students, Journal of American History, Vol. 86, #4, 1715-1720, March 2000, (invited).
“Teaching New Perspectives on Theodore Roosevelt and His Era: Was Theodore Roosevelt a Warmonger?” a special edition on the Progressive Era in the O.A.H. Magazine of History , Vol. 13, #3, 31-36, Spring 1999, (invited).
“President Clinton, You’re No Teddy Roosevelt,” Los Angeles Times, M1, M6, Opinion Section, January 26, 1997, (invited).
With E. Anthony Rotundo, “Recalling the McNemar Years,” Andover Bulletin, Vol. 87, #3, 2-11, Spring 1994, (invited).
“The Bully Prophet: Theodore Roosevelt and American Memory,” in Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publishing/Hofstra University,1992, (invited).
Review Essay on Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt and A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, in The Psychohistory Review, Vol. 19, #3, 351-358, Spring 1991, (invited).
“Phyllis W. Powell,” Andover Bulletin, Vol. 82, #3, 16-17, Spring 1989, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt, Knickerbocker Aristocrat,” New York History, Vol. 67, #1, 39-65, January 1986.
With Marion Finbury, “The Coeducation Study: A Portrait of a School,” Andover Bulletin, Vol. 79, #2, 20-22, Fall 1985, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of War,” The Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Vol. VII, #4, 6-11, Fall 1981 (invited).
“Why America Loved Teddy Roosevelt: Or Charisma is in the Eyes of the Beholders,” revised, Robert J. Brugger, ed., Our Selves/ Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 269-291, 1981, (invited).
“Why America Loved Theodore Roosevelt: Or Charisma is in the Eyes of the Beholders,” special issue on leadership, The Psychohistory Review, Vol.VIII, #3,16-26, Winter 1979, (invited).
PAPERS:
“Giants of Environmental History: Theodore Roosevelt Meets John Muir,”
The Cooligan Lecture Series, Miami University, October 1, 2009, (invited).
“Theodore Roosevelt and the Innovations of His Leadership,”
University of Mary Washington, Great Lives Speakers Series, January 2008.
“President Franklin Roosevelt’s World War II Embrace of Secret Intelligence: Its Roots and Tragic Foreign Policy Repercussions,” Institut du Monde Anglophone, Universite Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, March 21, 2007.
“American Women Facing the Threat of Fascism: the View from the Embassies and the Press,”
Colloque International Femmes Et Relations Internationales Au XXe Siècle, University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle III, Paris, November 5, 2004.
List of other papers available upon request.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt in the Wall Street Journal, on-line and print editions, November 23, 2010.
Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America in The Boston Globe, Ideas section, September 6, 2009, (invited).
Allida Black, et. al., eds., The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Volume 1, The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948 in Documentary Editing, Vol. 30, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall and Winter 2008 – 2009, (invited).
Lewis L. Gould, Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics in The American Historical Review, in press (invited).
Louise W. Knight, Citizen Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, The Chicago Tribune, Sunday Magazine, November 13, 2005.
Patricia O’Toole, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House, Ideas section, The Boston Globe, I 4, March 6, 2005.
Richard D. White Jr., Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895, in The Journal of American History, Vol. 91 Issue 4, 1484-85, March 2005.
David H. Donald, We are Lincoln Men: Friendship in the Life of Abraham Lincoln, Ideas section, The Boston Globe, D9, February 29, 2004.
List of other reviews available upon request.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
* Appointed Distinguished Lecturer: Organization of American Historians 2006 – 2014
* Awarded fellowship: National Endowment for the Humanities 2005 – 2006
* Appointed Primm Lecturer: University of Missouri and Missouri Historical Society 2005
* Named Fellow: Society of American Historians 2004
* Awarded Gilder Lehrman fellowship 2002 – 2003
* Awarded Charles Warren Center fellowship: Harvard University 1996 – 1997
* Appointed Cecil F.P. Bancroft Endowed Teaching Foundation Chair 1988
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Panel Moderator: Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation John F. Kennedy Library February 2010
Juror: Parkman Prize
Society of American Historians 2008 – 2009
Advisory Board: Theodore Roosevelt Center Digitization Project,
Dickinson State’s cooperative project with the Library of Congress, the National
Park Service, and Harvard University, North Dakota 2007 – present
Member: Program Committee
American Historical Association 1987