RIVERSIDE, Calif. — As campaign rhetoric heats up heading into the November elections, scholars at the University of California, Riverside are available to discuss issues from California’s initiative process and the impact of foreclosures on voting to immigration policy and the economy.
First Ladies, Women in American Political History
Catherine Allgor, professor of history(951) 827-1972[email protected]http://www.history.ucr.edu/People/Faculty/Allgor/index.html
Allgor is available to speak about the role of women in politics across a broad spectrum of American history, particularly in the formation of U.S. government, and the importance of the nation's first ladies. She is the author of "Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington City Help Build a City and a Government" and a biography of Dolley Madison. "Successful first ladies run the unofficial machine of politics, the social sphere, where much business is accomplished," she says. In September Allgor was appointed by President Barack Obama to the board of trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, which promotes the teaching of the Constitution by giving fellowships to secondary school educators to support earning master’s degrees in American history, American government, and social studies.
ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/betty-ford-handpicked-speakers-prepare-funeral/story?id=14054956&singlePage=true#.UCFo9KCDl8EUSA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20110113/jfkarchives13_st.art.htm
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