Kathleen Dalton
\n214 Massachusetts Ave. Lexington, MA 02420-4006
\nkdalton41salem@gmail.com
\nExternal Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University
\nIndependent Scholar<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Historian 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\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
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B.A. with honors in history<\/p>\n
M.A. and Ph.D.<\/p>\n
U.S. history since 1861, biography, the Gilded Age and Progressive era, transnational history,\u00a0\u00a0 Women\u2019s history and gender studies<\/p>\n
Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History and Social Sciences Phillips Academy 1980 \u2013 2015<\/p>\n
Visiting Associate Professor: Department of History<\/p>\n
2007 \u2013 2008<\/p>\n
Co-director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies<\/p>\n
2003 \u2013 2010<\/p>\n
Consulting Historian: Revised Interpretive Themes, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural<\/p>\n
National Historic Site. Buffalo, New York 2007<\/p>\n
Consulting Historian: National Park Service, Organization of American Historians\u2019<\/p>\n
Public History Office, including working on interpretive themes and speaking related<\/p>\n
to Teaching American History Grants (public school teacher workshops.)<\/p>\n
Massachusetts, New York, California, Minnesota, Virginia, etc. 2002 \u2013 2011<\/p>\n
Research Fellow: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2002 \u2013 2003<\/p>\n
Research Fellow: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History<\/p>\n
Associate Fellow: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History<\/p>\n
Affiliate Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard<\/p>\n
University 1996 \u2013 1997 1997 \u2013 2001, 2002 \u2013 2003, 2004 \u2013 2005, 2012-2013 2013-2014<\/p>\n
Instructor: A.L.M. Program. (teaching \u201cIntroduction to Graduate Study in Social<\/p>\n
Science: Theodore Roosevelt and His Era\u201d) Harvard University Extension School 1997 – 1999<\/p>\n
Visiting Professor. Taught interdisciplinary course \u201cThe American Psyche\u201d<\/p>\n
1989 and 1990 summer session<\/p>\n
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life<\/span>: biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover, 2002; Vintage Books, paperback, February 2004; Recorded Books, December 2004.<\/p>\n The White Lilies and the Iron Boot: the Political Friendship of Caroline and William Phillips with Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt<\/span>, the history of a crucial political alliance in the New Deal era and World War II, in progress.<\/p>\n Theodore Roosevelt and his Sagamore Hill home: Historic Resource Study, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site<\/span> \/ H.W. Brands, Kathleen Dalton, Lewis L. Gould, Natalie A. Naylor; Juliet Frey, editor; Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 2008.<\/p>\n Report for Reinterpreting Theodore Roosevelt and Sagamore Hill<\/span>, prepared by Kathleen Dalton; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Northeast Region, October 2004.<\/p>\n The Romance of Diplomacy: A Biography in Journals of Caroline Drayton Phillips<\/span>: 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.<\/p>\n A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover<\/span>: 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.<\/p>\n \u201cChanging Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era,\u201d in A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<\/span>, Wiley Blackwell, in press for 2017, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt,\u201d Oxford encyclopedia of military and diplomatic history<\/u>, Oxford University Press, 2013, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bull Moose Party,\u201d Oxford encyclopedia of American political, policy, and legal history<\/u>, Oxford University Press, 2012, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt\u2019s Contradictory Legacies: From Imperialist Nationalism to Advocacy of a Progressive Welfare State,\u201d A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt<\/u>, Serge Ricard, editor, New York: Wiley:Blackwell Co., 2011, (invited).<\/p>\n Blog entry: \u201cEmulate Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt,\u201d in \u201cHistorians\u2019 Advice for Dick Cheney,\u201d New York Times<\/u> on-line, Room for Debate, June 27, 2009, (invited).<\/p>\n Blog entry: \u201cTOPIC A: The Next 100 Days,\u201d The Washington Post<\/u>, April 24, 2009, http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wpdyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/24\/AR20090424 03647.html , (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cA \u2018bully\u2019 Roosevelt fought for the little man,\u201d The Free Lance-Star<\/u>, A9, Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 11, 2008, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt: the Making of a Reformer,\u201d History Now<\/u>, on-line journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Issue Seventeen, September 2008, http:\/\/www.historynow.org\/09_2008\/historian3.html , (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Would Change If a Woman Were President?\u201d History News Network post, February, 2008. http:\/\/hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/47038.html .<\/p>\n \u201cTeaching American Reform in World Context,\u201d America On The World Stage: Essays on the Teaching of the United States History Survey<\/u>, University of Illinois Press, 2008, (invited by the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt,\u201d Roger K. Newman, ed., The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law<\/u>, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cThoughts on \u2018biography as history\u2019 from visiting professor,\u201d News of the History Department at Boston University<\/u>, October 2007, 10-12, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cFinding Theodore Roosevelt: a Personal and Political Story,\u201d Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<\/u>, 6:4 October 2007, 1-21, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt: The Self-Made Man,\u201d Time Magazine<\/u>, Vol. 168, #1, p. 48-50, July 3, 2006, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cBridge-Builder,\u201d Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal<\/u>, Vol. XXVI, #3, 2005, 12-13, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of his Blind Ambition in 1912,\u201d paper given at \u201cDefining History: Critical American Elections\u201d conference, May 2008; published by Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home, Manchester, VT, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cWhy Gays Should Be Allowed to Say \u2018I Do\u2019,\u201d 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<\/u> across the country, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt: Lover of Stories,\u201d Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal<\/u>, 25 (4): 3-9, 2003, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cFor T.R., Government Was the Solution,\u201d New York Times<\/u>, Week in Review, The Nation, Section 4:5, July 14, 2002.<\/p>\n \u201cSin, Sex and Censorship: Theodore Roosevelt and Moral Reform,\u201d 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<\/u>, a celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of TR\u2019s Presidency, Canisius College, September 18, 2002, (in press); broadcast on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n \u201cBetween the Diplomacy of Imperialism and the Achievement of World Order by Supranational Mediation: Ethnocentrism and Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s Changing Views of World Order,\u201d paper given at \u201cEthnocentrism and Diplomacy: America and the World in the 20th Century\u201d 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 Si\u00e8cle.<\/u> Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2001, (invited).<\/p>\n With E. Anthony Rotundo, \u201cTeaching Gender Studies to High School Students,\u201d the challenges of teaching basic historical and social science studies of gender to advanced high school students, Journal of American History<\/u>, Vol. 86, #4, 1715-1720, March 2000, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTeaching New Perspectives on Theodore Roosevelt and His Era: Was Theodore Roosevelt a Warmonger?\u201d a special edition on the Progressive Era in the O.A.H. Magazine of History <\/u><\/span>, Vol. 13, #3, 31-36, Spring 1999, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Clinton, You’re No Teddy Roosevelt,\u201d Los Angeles Times<\/span>, M1, M6, Opinion Section, January 26, 1997, (invited).<\/p>\n With E. Anthony Rotundo, \u201cRecalling the McNemar Years,\u201d Andover Bulletin<\/span>, Vol. 87, #3, 2-11, Spring 1994, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bully Prophet: Theodore Roosevelt and American Memory,\u201d in Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American<\/span>, Interlaken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publishing\/Hofstra University,1992, (invited).<\/p>\n Review Essay on Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt<\/span> and A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt<\/span>, in The Psychohistory Review, Vol. 19, #3, 351-358, Spring 1991, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cPhyllis W. Powell,\u201d Andover Bulletin<\/span>, Vol. 82, #3, 16-17, Spring 1989, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt, Knickerbocker Aristocrat,\u201d New York History<\/span>, Vol. 67, #1, 39-65, January 1986.<\/p>\n With Marion Finbury, \u201cThe Coeducation Study: A Portrait of a School,\u201d Andover Bulletin<\/span>, Vol. 79, #2, 20-22, Fall 1985, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt and the Idea of War,\u201d The Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal<\/span>, Vol. VII, #4, 6-11, Fall 1981 (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cWhy America Loved Teddy Roosevelt: Or Charisma is in the Eyes of the Beholders,\u201d revised, Robert J. Brugger, ed., Our Selves\/ Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History<\/span>, Johns Hopkins University Press, 269-291, 1981, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cWhy America Loved Theodore Roosevelt: Or Charisma is in the Eyes of the Beholders,\u201d special issue on leadership, The Psychohistory Review<\/span>, Vol.VIII, #3,16-26, Winter 1979, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cGiants of Environmental History: Theodore Roosevelt Meets John Muir,\u201d<\/p>\n The Cooligan Lecture Series, Miami University, October 1, 2009, (invited).<\/p>\n \u201cTheodore Roosevelt and the Innovations of His Leadership,\u201d<\/p>\n University of Mary Washington, Great Lives Speakers Series, January 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s World War II Embrace of Secret Intelligence: Its Roots and Tragic Foreign Policy Repercussions,\u201d Institut du Monde Anglophone, Universite Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, March 21, 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Women Facing the Threat of Fascism: the View from the Embassies and the Press,\u201d<\/p>\n Colloque International Femmes Et Relations Internationales Au XXe Si\u00e8cle<\/span>, University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle III, Paris, November 5, 2004.<\/p>\n List of other papers available upon request.<\/p>\n Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt<\/span> in the Wall Street Journal<\/span>, on-line and print editions, November 23, 2010.<\/p>\n Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America<\/span> in The Boston Globe<\/span>, Ideas section, September 6, 2009, (invited).<\/p>\n Allida Black, et. al., eds., The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Volume 1, The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948<\/span> in Documentary Editing<\/span>, Vol. 30, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall and Winter 2008 \u2013 2009, (invited).<\/p>\n Lewis L. Gould, Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics<\/span> in The American Historical Review<\/span>, in press (invited).<\/p>\n Louise W. Knight, Citizen Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy<\/span>, The Chicago Tribune<\/span>, Sunday Magazine, November 13, 2005.<\/p>\n Patricia O\u2019Toole, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House<\/span>, Ideas section, The Boston Globe<\/span>, I 4, March 6, 2005.<\/p>\n Richard D. White Jr., Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895<\/span>, in The Journal of American History<\/span>, Vol. 91 Issue 4, 1484-85, March 2005.<\/p>\n David H. Donald, We are Lincoln Men: Friendship in the Life of Abraham Lincoln<\/span>, Ideas section, The Boston Globe<\/span>, D9, February 29, 2004.<\/p>\n List of other reviews available upon request.<\/p>\n * Appointed Distinguished Lecturer: Organization of American Historians 2006 \u2013 2014<\/p>\n * Awarded fellowship: National Endowment for the Humanities 2005 \u2013 2006<\/p>\n * Appointed Primm Lecturer: University of Missouri and Missouri Historical Society 2005<\/p>\n * Named Fellow: Society of American Historians 2004<\/p>\n * Awarded Gilder Lehrman fellowship 2002 \u2013 2003<\/p>\n * Awarded Charles Warren Center fellowship: Harvard University 1996 \u2013 1997<\/p>\n * Appointed Cecil F.P. Bancroft Endowed Teaching Foundation Chair 1988<\/p>\n Panel Moderator: Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation John F. Kennedy Library February 2010<\/p>\n Juror: Parkman Prize<\/p>\n Society of American Historians 2008 \u2013 2009<\/p>\n Advisory Board: Theodore Roosevelt Center Digitization Project,<\/p>\n Dickinson State\u2019s cooperative project with the Library of Congress, the National<\/p>\n Park Service, and Harvard University, North Dakota 2007 \u2013 present<\/p>\n Member: Program Committee<\/p>\n American Historical Association 1987<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kathleen Dalton 214 Massachusetts Ave. Lexington, MA 02420-4006 kdalton41salem@gmail.com External Fellow, International History Institute, Boston University Independent Scholar \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Historian Kathleen Dalton wrote Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (Alfred A. 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