Kathleen Dalton is Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History at Phillips Academy Andover as well as 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 is currently working on her next book, The White Lilies and the Iron Boot, a story of four friends (including Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt) and their attempts to shape U.S. foreign relations during a dangerous time.

Lecture topics:

• How Radical Was He? The Contradictory Politics of Theodore Roosevelt
• Presidential Bonds: What Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt Had in Common, Besides Loving Eleanor
• Environmental History Giants: John Muir Meets Theodore Roosevelt
• Life Lessons from the Great Depression: How We Held Our Heads High the Last Time the Bottom Fell Out
• Eleanor's Other Friend: The First Lady as Seen Through the Diaries of Caroline Drayton Phillips
• Internationalizing Progressivism

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