About Kathleen Dalton

Kathleen Dalton is a biographer and public historian. Formerly Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History at Phillips Academy Andover, she is a Research Affiliate at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and an external fellow of Boston University’s International History Institute.

Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002) and A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (1986), she has spoken widely about Theodore Roosevelt, including appearances on C-SPAN’s Book TV, the History Channel, the Arts and Entertainment Channel, and public television; her writing has appeared in numerous newspapers. She has worked as a public history consultant with the National Park Service and the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. She has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and as an elected  member of the Society of American Historians has served on the Parkman Prize Committee.

She is currently working on her next book, “The Dinner Club”, a story of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt’s years working in the administration of President Woodrow Wilson and the close group of friends who opened their eyes to new progressive ideas and struggled through the years of World War I with them.

Time Magazine Article, “The Self-Made Man” by Kathleen Dalton

Television Appearances:

Kathleen Dalton on C-SPAN

The Shifting Fortunes of Presidential Reputations Part I: “The Press and the Presidency”

Interviews with Kathleen Dalton:

Wilson Center: Interview with Kathleen Dalton
Eye on Books: Interview with Kathleen Dalton

Articles About Kathleen Dalton:

http://www.andover.edu/publications/2002fall_bulletin/k_dalton.htm

Articles by Kathleen Dalton:

“Theodore Roosevelt’s Historical Consciousness and Lincoln’s Generous Nationalism,” in Historian-in-Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Control the Future, edited by Richard Ellis and Seth Cotlar, in press for publication by the University of Virginia Press, 2019. (invited)

“Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era,” in A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Wiley-Blackwell companions to American history, John Wiley & Sons, 2017, (invited).

“Theodore Roosevelt,” The 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).

NEWS ABOUT KATHLEEN DALTON:

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