Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History by Katherine A S Sibley

Author:Katherine A S Sibley [Sibley, Katherine A S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, General, History, United States, State & Local, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV), Political Science, American Government, Executive Branch
ISBN: 9780700630431
Google: aJWVzQEACAAJ
Goodreads: 55473852
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2021-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

notes

1. Jack Shafer, “Abolish the Office of the First Lady,” Politico Magazine, November 22, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/abolish-the-office-of-the-first-lady-214471.

2. Carl Anthony, “The White House Staff of First Ladies,” National First Ladies’ Library, August 24, 2016, http://www.firstladies.org/blog/the-white-house-staff-of-first-ladies/.

3. Some good general histories of American first ladies include Carl Sferrazza Anthony, First Ladies: The Saga of the President’s Wives and Their Power, 1789–1961 (New York: William Morrow, 1990); Betty Boyd Caroli, First Ladies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986); Myra G. Gutin, The President’s Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991); Gil Troy, Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple since World War II (New York: Free Press, 1997). For an excellent and innovative discussion of gender and early American politics, see Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000).

4. Nancy F. Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000); Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000); Elaine Tyler May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980); Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife (New York: HarperCollins, 2001); Gil Troy, Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons, 2nd ed., rev. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000).

5. Allgor, Parlor Politics; John F. Marszalek, The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000); Troy, Mr. and Mrs. President; Anthony, First Ladies; Carl Sferrazza Anthony, America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House (New York: Touchstone, 2000). Examples of scholarly inquiry into twentieth-century marital partnerships include Katherine A. S. Sibley, First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009); Nancy Beck Young, Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004).

6. Regarding nineteenth-century gender roles, see Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780–1835 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977). For first ladies in the nineteenth century, see Caroli, First Ladies, 33–83; Lewis L. Gould, ed., American First Ladies: Their Lives and Legacies, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2001).

7. Andrew Burnaby to George Washington, letter, April 9, 1778, in The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 14: March–April 1778, ed. David R. Hoth (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004), 433.

8. Dolley Payne Madison, The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, ed. David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003), 90, 100–102.

9. Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003); Catherine Clinton, Tara Revisited: Women, War and the Plantation Legend (New York: Abbeville, 1995); Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997); Laura F. Edwards, Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern

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