College of Arts and Sciences

Kathleen Dalton, Visiting Associate Professor

History

Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002), A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (1986), and numerous articles, Professor Dalton is a specialist in U.S. history from 1865 to the present. A graduate of Mills College, she earned her M.A. and Ph. D. in history at Johns Hopkins University. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University and she has been elected to the Society of American Historians and named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. In addition to editing the diaries of Caroline Drayton Phillips for publication, 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 the dangerous years leading up to World War II.