March 2022

Presidential Sites Summit 2022: March 16 Afternoon General Sessions - White House Historical Association (whitehousehistory.org)

First Ladies - Influence and Impact | C-SPAN.org

April 2023
Is Melania Trump done?

The wife of the former president has shown little interest in following the path of other wives of presidents and presidential candidates.

February 2023
Evolution of the Modern First Lady – How We Got from Lady Washington to Dr. Biden (doleinstitute.org)

January 2023
Dole Institute announces spring semester programs | The University of Kansas (ku.edu)

Dole Institute Spring Semester Lineup Includes Focus on First Ladies, Women Leaders - The Lawrence Times - Hinterland Gazette

March 2022

September 30 , 2021
AU partners with the First Ladies Association for Research and Education to study US first ladies - The Eagle (theeagleonline.com)

May 25, 2021
Ames (Iowa) History Museum and Ames Public Library Lecture Series | YouTube

May 6, 2021
White House Historical Association First Ladies Symposium, First Ladies and Communication | White House Historical Association

March 31, 2021
First Ladies Who Risked Their Lives for Civil Rights, Archives Foundation, (with Anita McBride and Nancy Kegan Smith) | YouTube

December 19, 2020
I’m a Kansas Dr.—and an expert on the sexist treatment of women in politics | Kansas Reflector

August 17, 2020
Three First Ladies Who Risked Their Lives to Advance Civil Rights, CNN Opinion. Nancy Kegan Smith, Diana B. Carlin, and Anita McBride | CNN

May 16, 2020
Michelle Obama: Back to the White House? | Matisak's Blog (A Stamp on the World)

April 20, 2021
Jill Biden's Fashion Choices Differ From Other Former First Ladies | Insider

January 12, 2021
Jill Biden: Less Hillary Clinton, more Barbara Bush | Washington Examiner

November 17, 2020
Vegas May be Betting on a Post-Presidential Divorce, but Melania Trump Seems All In for Her Husband | Washington Post

November 9, 2020
Jill Biden could be the only first lady to have a job outside the White House | The Lily

October 8, 2020
Melania Trump, president and COVID-19: How first ladies handle heatlh | USA Today

July 27, 2020
Melania Trump announces the White House Rose Garden will be revamped, a throwback to the Kennedy era - Jada Yuan | Jewish World Review

April 10, 2020
Melania Trump is having a moment during coronavirus pandemic | Detroit News

September 7, 2022
Presidential historian Mark Updegrove and White House Historical Association board member Anita McBride discuss the unveiling of Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits.

June 27, 2022
“Dionne Dichtbij de First Ladies” Dutch TV documentary – Skyhigh TV

June 22, 2022
“Dionne Dichtbij de First Ladies” Dutch TV documentary – Skyhigh TV

June 21, 2022
“Dionne Dichtbij de First Ladies” Dutch TV documentary – Skyhigh TV

June 13, 2022
“Dionne Dichtbij de First Ladies” Dutch TV documentary – Skyhigh TV

March 17, 2022
History of first ladies can inspire future generations

March 1, 2022
Jill Biden puts support for Ukraine front-and-center” – The Hill

December 3, 2021
Queen Elizabeth’s dressmaker confers with first ladies to make sure their outfits won’t clash during visits, according to Laura Bush’s former chief of staff” – Insider

December 2, 2021
The surprising reason first ladies can’t wear clothes off the rack, according to Laura Bush’s former chief of staff” – Insider

September 30 , 2021
AU partners with the First Ladies Association for Research and Education to study US first ladies - The Eagle (theeagleonline.com)

September 8, 2021
Jill Biden returns to teaching this week, making history

July 16, 2021
Anita McBride was interviewed and featured on PBS’s “To the Contrary” show as part of their Woman Thought Leader Series to discuss her work as Chief of Staff to First Lady Laura Bush, the new FLARE initiative, and the impact of first ladies on our nation’

July 4, 2021
Anita McBride was interviewed by Aixa Diaz on Hearst TV to discuss FLARE

July 3, 2021
Anita McBride and Myra Gutin were quoted in a Politico article by Maeve Sheehey on the launch of FLARE 
Anita McBride was quoted in a Washington Post article by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan to discuss the impact of Rosalynn Carter’s work as first lady, particularly in the area of mental health issues

June 29, 2021
Anita McBride was quoted in The American Society of Association Executives Newsletter on the launch of FLARE

June 23, 2021
Anita McBride was quoted in an article in The College Post that also covered the launch of FLARE

June 22, 2021
Anita McBride was quoted in an article by Damare Baker in the Washingtonian on the launch of FLARE

June 21, 2021
Anita McBride: The First Ladies’ ‘stories need to be told’ | MSNBC
Anita McBride: The First Ladies’ ‘stories need to be told’ (msn.com)
Anita McBride was quoted in an article that American University’s School of Public Affairs wrote on FLARE to coincide with the launch of the association; AU shared it in This Week at AU

March 7, 2021
Who Will Be the Next Decorator-in-Chief? | Town and Country Magazine

January 20, 2021
Role of the First Lady | CBS News
Inauguration Coverage | NBC News
Challenges Facing Biden Early in His Administration | NBC4
Inauguration Day is also moving day at the White House | Fox Business
Trump’s vice president Pence applauds successor at inauguration | Reuters
Kamala Harris makes history | CTV News

January 19, 2021
Amid pandemic, White House gets deep cleaning before handover | ABC News
White House historian explains move in process for president, family on Inauguration Day | WJLA News
Melania Trump will not offer White House tour | CTV News
Deep Cleaning the White House Isn’t Really Necessary | The Atlantic

January 15, 2021
Melania Trump to Jill Biden: No tea-and-tour at White House, breaking longstanding tradition | USA Today
In Just 6 Hours, New First Family Is Moved Into White House | Voice of America.

December 9, 2020
Book Talk with Anita McBride and Kate Andersen Brower: Exploring the White House, White House Historical Association

November 11, 2020
Melania Trump has not reached out to Jill Biden either | CNN

November 10, 2020
What’s next for soon-to-be former first lady Melania Trump? | USA Today

October 15, 2020
Barron Trump tested positive for coronavirus, Melania Trump confirms | NBC’s The Today Show

August 26, 2020
Melania Trump’s GOP Convention speech: A closer look | NBC’s The Today Show
Anita McBride: Melania Trump ‘presented where we are as a nation' | MSNBC

August 25, 2020
First lady lends grace to Trump’s reelection bid | Washington Times

August 17, 2020
Three first ladies who risked their lives to advance civil rights | CNN August 17, 2020

August 13, 2020
Melania Trump plots convention speech that hopes to avoid past missteps | CNN

June 30, 2020
History of Staffing the First Lady, White House History Weekly

May 7, 2020
The 15th Anniversary of Mrs. Laura Bush’s Historic Trip to Afghanistan, George W. Bush Presidential Center

April 2023
Is Melania Trump done?

The wife of the former president has shown little interest in following the path of other wives of presidents and presidential candidates.

September 8, 2021
Jill Biden returns to teaching this week, making history

November 17, 2020
Vegas May be Betting on a Post-Presidential Divorce, but Melania Trump Seems All In for Her Husband | The Washington Post online

August 29
https://politicalsciencenow.com/apsa-statement-on-nomination-of-dr-colleen-j-shogan-as-archivist-of-the-united-states/

August 16
https://www2.archivists.org/news/2022/saa-welcomes-nomination-of-dr-colleen-j-shogan-as-next-aotus

August 3
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/03/president-biden-announces-key-nominees-28/

August 2022
https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-congratulates-colleen-shogan-nominee-for-archivist-of-the-united-states-(august-2022)

December 8, 2022
Presented a talk at the City Tavern Club at their LBJ Dinner on President & Mrs. Johnson's Efforts to Advance the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

October 26, 2022
Ms.Smith did a virtual presentation with lawyer Jason Baron for the Johns Hopkins Museum and Heritage Studies Program "NARA and Presidential Transitions: Legal and Archival Perspectives" which included discussion of the status and transfer of the records of the outgoing first lady.

October 20th, 2022
the Alexandria Times did a special feature on Ms. Smith's career entitled "Nancy Kegan Smith's career is One for the Record Books available at alextimes.com/2022/10/nancy-kegan-smiths-career-is-one-for-the-record-books/

September 19, 2022
Ms. Smith did a presentation to the FLARE Social Hour and responded to questions on the legal status and availability of the papers of first ladies

September 30 , 2021
AU partners with the First Ladies Association for Research and Education to study US first ladies - The Eagle (theeagleonline.com)

July 23, 2022
at the City Tavern Club at Washington, DC, Ms. Smith made a presentation to their Jackie Kennedy Dinner on Jackie Kennedy's relationship with the Johnson's using copies of telephone conversations and letters between Jackie Kennedy and the Johnsons.

May 6, 2021
White House Historical Association Symposium on First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson and White House Preservation | White House Historical Association

March 31, 2021
First Ladies Who Risked Their Lives for Civil Rights, Archives Foundation | YouTube

December 7, 2020
American POTUS, First Ladies: Supporting Their Causes and Their Country | American POTUS Podcast

August 17, 2020
Three First Ladies Who Risked Their Lives to Advance Civil Rights | CNN

April 2023
Is Melania Trump done?

The wife of the former president has shown little interest in following the path of other wives of presidents and presidential candidates.

Colleen Shogan was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next Archivist of the United States on August 3, 2022. Dr. Shogan joined the White House Historical Association in the winter of 2020 after almost fifteen years of federal government service. She previously worked in the United States Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress. Colleen was the Vice Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and now serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors at the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation, designated by Congress to build the first Washington, D.C. memorial dedicated to the early movement for women’s equality. Colleen teaches at Georgetown University in the Government Department and is a member of the History Education Advisory Board for America250. She is the previous President of the National Capital Area Political Science Association and served on the American Political Science Association (APSA) Council, the governing body of the organization. Her research focuses on the American presidency, presidential rhetoric, women in politics, and Congress. A native of Pittsburgh, she holds a BA in Political Science from Boston College and a Ph.D. in American Politics from Yale University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of the Cross and Crown, and the United States Capitol Historical Society’s Council of Scholars. Dr. Shogan has hosted a FLARE program on Jackie Kennedy ((84) Jacqueline Kennedy at Home and Abroad - YouTube) and supported WHHA programs on first ladies. 

Ms. Smith worked for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as an archivist from 1973 until 2012 when she retired. She started her career as an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. In 1989 she co-edited and compiled the book, Modern First Ladies: Their Documentary Legacy. In that same year she moved to Washington, DC, first working for NARA’s Office of Presidential Libraries and later becoming the Director of the Presidential Materials Division, the Division at NARA that advised the White House on Presidential, Vice Presidential and First Lady’s records and gift issues and handled moves of Presidential records at the end of the administration. 

She has authored numerous publications, teaches and lectures on access to Presidential records, the Presidential Library system and First Ladies and their papers. She is co author of the article “A Historical Review of Access to Records in Presidential Libraries” and gave a series of lectures at Oxford University on Access to Presidential records. She had just finished co authoring the first college textbook on first ladies U.S. First Ladies Their Lives and Legacies along with Anita Mc Bride and Dr. Diana Carlin.

As professor of History at Iowa State University, Stacy A. Cordery an award-winning teacher, respected author, and popular talking head. Before moving to Ames in 2016 she served as professor and chair of the History Department at Monmouth College, where she won the institution’s only teaching award a record four times. Last academic year, she was the Dennis and Vaune Johnson Endowed Chair in Theodore Roosevelt Studies and the director of the TR Honors Leadership Program at Dickinson State University in Dickinson, North Dakota. 

Cordery earned her doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked with Lewis L. Gould, the founder of the modern study of First Ladies. As an undergraduate she took the first university-level course on First Ladies, taught by Gould, and did research on Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Pennybacker, locating previously unknown correspondence between the two in the American Research Center at UT. Her dissertation on the life of Alice Roosevelt Longworth formed the basis for her biography, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (Viking Books, 2007), a New York Times Notable Book.

She is also the author of Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts (Viking, 2012) and two books about Theodore Roosevelt. She has spoken at the White House Historical Association’s Presidential Sites Summit, the Wilson Center, the Jefferson Educational Forum, the National Constitution Center, the Miller Center, Printers Row Lit Fest, and the Savannah Book Festival. Her media appearances include C-SPAN, CNN, the Diane Rehm Show, and National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. She was recently featured on the History Channel’s two-part miniseries on Theodore Roosevelt and on the Smithsonian Channel’s television series “First Ladies Revealed” speaking about Edith Roosevelt in the White House. She is currently under contract with Viking/Penguin for a biography of American entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, whose clients included Mamie Eisenhower and Jacqueline Kennedy.

For eighteen years, Dr. Cordery served as the web bibliographer for the National First Ladies Library. Her first lady expertise is on First Ladies of the Progressive Era, especially Edith Kermit Roosevelt. For more information, please see www.stacycordery.com.