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First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) Announces Allida Black, Ph.D., as the 2024 Lewis L. Gould Award Recipient

Allida Black, Ph.D., today received the 2024 Lewis L. Gould Award. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute of the University of Oxford, Special Adviser and Historian to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Managing Director of the Allenswood Group, LLC, a collaborative she founded to strengthen democracy through education and civic engagement and to preserve women’s political history.

First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) Announces Allida Black, Ph.D., as the 2024 Lewis L. Gould Award Recipient
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On This Day: FLARE Asserts the Importance of Studying Presidential First Ladies

Association celebrates its third year in shaping a network of experts and researchers around first ladies history.

On This Day: FLARE Asserts the Importance of Studying Presidential First Ladies
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FLARE's Exciting New Podcast Series American FLOTUS

FLARE's Exciting New Podcast Series American FLOTUS

New Podcast Series, American FLOTUS, Debuts Today

First Episode Puts Spotlight on the Role of a Future First Gentleman

The First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) and American POTUS, the popular podcast about the US presidency, have launched a new joint podcast, American FLOTUS.The series will focus on US first ladies, their impact, legacies, and evolution of the role and office.

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American FLOTUS

American FLOTUS is dedicated to bringing you the very best information and analysis about the First Ladies of the United States. In this partnership of the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) and American POTUS, we present experts drawn from the many members of FLARE sharing with us their expertise and their experiences. We hope you enjoy American FLOTUS. The first podcast is:

Envisioning the Role of a First Gentleman

At some point, our nation will elect a woman as president, and we likely then will have our first First Gentleman. How will he approach the duties that have in the past been undertaken by First Ladies? The inaugural episode of American FLOTUS, featuring Dr. Diana Carlin, discusses this topic.

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The mission of FLARE is to create and sustain a network to promote and publicize research and education relevant to the contributions, lives, impacts, and lasting legacies of U.S. First Ladies.
 
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FLARE will be the primary association to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and outreach among scholars, institutions, First Ladies’ staff, biographers, archivists, journalists, and public historians interested in research and education about the lasting legacy of U.S. First Ladies.

 

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CT 57-899FLARE Focus on Eleanor Roosevelt: Pioneering and Normalizing Activism for First Ladies

Abby Palazzo

Rhetorical scholar Myra Gutin sorts America’s first ladies into three categories: White House Keepers, Emerging Spokeswomen, and Political Surrogates/Independent Advocates.[i] Many women who occupied the role of first lady, such as Bess Truman, preferred to stay out of the spotlight and declined to take advantage of the political power inherent in the role, instead choosing the primarily social and ceremonial role of White House Keepers. Others were Emerging Spokeswomen, like Lou Henry Hoover, who championed social causes such as Girl Scouting, and made history by speaking on the radio as First Lady, but still largely avoided the press. And others, such as Lady Bird Johnson, were Political Surrogates who took advantage of their private political influence to affect policy by proxy. Activism through independent advocacy was only loosely associated with the role of first lady until one woman redefined the title: Eleanor Roosevelt.

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