A Companion to First Ladies (eBook)

Katherine A.S. Sibley (Herausgeber)

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2016
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-73218-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history.

• Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century
• Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands' legacies
• Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate
• Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady

Autor

Katherine A.S. Sibley is Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University, USA. She is the author of four books, most recently First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (2009) and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004). She was the editor of A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), and serves on the editorial board of American Communist History as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee for the US State Department.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction 1
Katherine A. S. Sibley

1 Martha Washington 6
Robert P. Watson

2 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 20
Margaret A. Hogan

3 Martha Jefferson Randolph, First Daughter 38
Billy L. Wayson

4 James and Dolley Madison and the Quest for Unity 59
Catherine Allgor

5 Elizabeth Monroe 75
Finn Pollard

6 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 89
Catherine Allgor, Margery M. Heffron and Amanda Mathews Norton

7 Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson: A Reluctant First Lady 111
Christina Mune

8 Angelica Singleton Van Buren, First Lady for a Widower 129
John F. Marszalek

9 The Ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too 142
Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy

10 Sarah Polk: Ideas of Her Own 159
Valerie Palmer?-Mehta

11 Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce: Three Antebellum Presidents' Ladies 176
Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker?-Estrada

12 Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston 197
Thomas J. Balcerski

13 Mary Todd Lincoln 214
William D. Pederson

14 Eliza McCardle Johnson and Julia Dent Grant 230
Pamela K. Sanfilippo

15 Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Mary Arthur McElroy 247
Benjamin T. Arrington

16 Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee 265
Merry Ellen Scofield

17 Ida McKinley: A Life of Contrasts 283
Louie P. Gallo

18 Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt: The Victorian Modern First Lady 298
Catherine Forslund

19 Helen Herron Taft: The Forgotten Impact of a Memorable First Lady 320
Rafaele Fierro

20 Ellen Axson Wilson 339
Lisa M. Burns

21 Edith Wilson: The First Lady in Charge 357
Barbara Klaczynska

22 Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist 379
Katherine A. S. Sibley

23 Grace Coolidge 404
Teri Finneman

24 The Historiography of Lou Henry Hoover 423
Nancy Beck Young

25 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life before and during the White House Years 439
Maurine H. Beasley

26 Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World 459
Maurine H. Beasley

27 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Wallace Truman 476
Michael J. Devine

28 Overrated Pleasures and Underrated Treasures: Mamie Eisenhower, a Bridge between First Lady Archetypes 492
Anthony Rama Maravillas

29 Jacqueline Kennedy 503
Katherine Jellison

30 Lady Bird Johnson 517
Lisa M. Burns

31 An Unlikely First Lady: Pat Nixon 535
Mary C. Brennan

32 Betty Ford: "When Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary" 552
Myra G. Gutin

33 Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter 569
Kristin L. Ahlberg

34 Nancy Reagan 585
Jason Roberts

35 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, I: 1925-1988 604
Diana B. Carlin

36 Barbara Pierce Bush: Choosing a Complete Life, II: 1988-2015 621
Diana B. Carlin

37 Hillary Rodham Clinton 635
Janette Kenner Muir

38 Laura Welch Bush: Strength and Serenity in Turbulent Times 653
Anita McBride

39 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, I 677
Nancy Kegan Smith and Diana B. Carlin

40 First Lady Michelle Obama: The American Dream Endures, II 696
Diana B. Carlin and Nancy Kegan Smith

Index 716

Textauszug

Notes on Contributors

Kristin L. Ahlberg is assistant to the general editor in the Office of the Historian, US Department of State. She is the author of Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace (2008); co-compiler of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, volume 38: Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1973–1976 (2012); and compiler of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, volume 2: Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (2013) and of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, volume 1: Foundations of Foreign Policy (2014). Her articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, The Public Historian, the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History, and the Organization of American Historians’ Newsletter.

Catherine Allgor is the Nadine and Robert Skotheim Director of Education at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and former professor of history and presidential chair at the University of California, Riverside. Her first book, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000), won the James H. Broussard First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Book Award. She has also published Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity (2012); The Queen of America: Mary Cutts’s Life of Dolley Madison (2012); and A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (2006).

Benjamin T. Arrington is a career historian and park ranger at the National Park Service. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and has published on numerous subjects related to the Civil War, westward expansion, and presidential history. He contributes to several history blogs and has spoken at academic conferences hosted by the Organization of American Historians, the George Wright Society, the Nebraska and Illinois State Historical Societies, the National Park Service, and others. In discussing American history and National Park Service news and events, he has appeared on PBS, C-Span, National Public Radio, Radio Free Europe, and many other media outlets. Arrington is a US army veteran and has taught as an adjunct professor at John Carroll University and at Lake Erie College.

Thomas J. Balcerski is assistant professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is working on a book project titled The Siamese Twins: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King.

Maurine H. Beasley is professor emerita at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland College Park, where her specialty has been the history of Washington women journalists—including Eleanor Roosevelt, who considered herself a journalist—and the media treatment of other first ladies. Her most recent book, Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice and Persistence (2012) won the Kappa Tau Alpha prize for the best researched book on journalism/mass communication published that year. A former staff writer for the Washington Post, she holds degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri and Columbia University and a doctorate in American civilization from George Washington University.

Mary C. Brennan (PhD from Miami University, 1988), professor and chair of the History Department at Texas State University, researches conservatism. Following Turning Right in the Sixties (1995), she focused on women within conservatism in her subsequent books Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace (2008) and Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady (2011).

Lisa M. Burns is professor of communications and chair of media studies at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Her research, including the 2008 book First Ladies and the Fourth Estate, focuses on media coverage of first ladies and political women. She also does work on public memory in presidential museums. She authored the chapter on Lady Bird Johnson that appeared in Wiley Blackwell’s A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (2012).

Diana B. Carlin retired as professor of communication and associate provost at Saint Louis University in 2015. Her research centers on political campaign communication and women in politics. She has written on Lady Bird Johnson and Hillary Clinton and has taught a course on the rhetoric of first ladies.

Michael J. Devine is emeritus director of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. He earned his PhD from Ohio State University and has held senior administrative positions at historical institutions in Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, and Wyoming. He has twice served as a senior Fulbright Lecturer in Argentina (1984) and Korea (1995).

Rafaele Fierro received his doctorate in history from the University of Connecticut in 2000 and is currently professor of history and government at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, Connecticut. He is also instructor of history at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He has written numerous articles, particularly for online publications and historical societies, and has edited Mary Elizabeth Brown’s report for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation entitled The Italians of South Village.

Teri Finneman completed her PhD at the University of Missouri in 2015 and is now assistant professor at South Dakota State University. She studies media coverage of US first ladies and women politicians and also researches historical and contemporary women journalists. She is a former political reporter and multimedia correspondent from North Dakota.

Catherine Forslund is professor of history, department chair, and dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Rockford University, where she teaches US, Latin American, and Chinese history. Her publications include works in diplomatic and women’s history such as Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations (2002), We Are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II (2010), and “Worth a Thousand Words…: Editorial Cartoons of the Korean War,” in Journal of Conflict Studies (2002). She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

Louie P. Gallo is publications editor for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University Libraries. He earned a BA in history from West Liberty University and an MA in American studies with a focus on public and applied history from Youngstown State University. He has made contributions to various documentary editing projects, including the Sutliff Family Papers and the Frederick Douglass Papers. Prior to his work with the Grant Presidential Library, he worked at the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial and the McKinley Museum.

Myra G. Gutin is professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. A frequent media commentator, she is the author of The President’s Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century (1989) and Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch (2008). She has written scholarly articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on American first ladies, women in politics, and political communication. Currently she is working on a biography of Betty Ford.

Margery M. Heffron was formerly associate vice president for university relations at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She ended her career as an independent scholar in Exeter, New Hampshire, at work on a biography of Louisa Catherine Adams, for which she received the Marc Friedlander Fellowship for 2008–2009 from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Margery died in December 2011.

Margaret A. Hogan is editorial consultant and an independent scholar. She is the former managing editor of the Adams Papers project at the Massachusetts Historical Society and served as the series editor for the Adams Family Correspondence, volumes 7–11 (2005–2013). She is co-editor, with C. James Taylor, of My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams (2007) and A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams (2014).

Katherine Jellison is professor of history at Ohio University. Her book It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945–2005 (2008) includes an analysis of first family weddings.

Barbara Klaczynska is a historian who specializes in women’s, urban, and ethnic history. She has studied and written about the history of women workers in Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Labor History and she has contributed to the online Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. She has a BA from Holy Family University, Philadelphia; an MA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and a PhD from Temple University, Philadelphia. She teaches at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia and at Penn State University, Abington. She has served on the board of the National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites and has been a consultant for the US National Park Service, Franklin Institute, Atwater Kent Museum, Historic Bartram’s Garden, the Greater Philadelphia Gardens Collaborative and the Rittenhouse Coalition for the Preservation of Sacred Places.

Sharon Williams Leahy is founder and principal of HistoryPreserve, a historic...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 20th Century America • Abigail Adams • American Social & Cultural History • American Social & Cultural History • Amerika • Amerika im 20. Jahrhundert • Barbara Bush • betty ford • dolley madison • Eleanor Roosevelt • First Lady • Florence Harding • Geschichte • Geschichte der USA • hillary rodham clinton • History • Jackie Kennedy • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Lady Bird Johnson • Laura Bush • martha washington • Mary Todd Lincoln • Michelle Obama • Nancy Reagan • President • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas • USA /Geschichte • us history • White House
• ISBN-10: 1-118-73218-9 / 1118732189
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-73218-2 / 9781118732182