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

March 2022

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

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

April 30, 2021
Jill Biden's fashion choices differ from other former first ladies | Insider

April 15, 2021
Nightlife: Featuring First Ladies | ABC

March 16, 2021
Documentary Pat Nixon in Peru on her humanitarian trip after the Great Peruvian Earthquake of 1970 | Vimeo

Lisa McCubbin Hill
IN THE NEWS

Oct. 31, 2022 PEOPLE magazine “The Jackie Only I Knew” six-page article featuring My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill

Oct. 25, 2022 TODAY Show "My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy" video clip 

Oct. 25, 2022 The Way I Heard It Podcast with Mike Rowe "Best Road Trip Ever"

Oct. 19, 2022 PEOPLE Online Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service Agent Reveals Their 'Indescribable bond' and his most personal memories yet"

Oct. 30, 2022 KVRR-TV Fargo Clint Hill writes about travels with Jacqueline Kennedy

Oct. 20, 2022 PEOPLE Online "Agent Clint Hill Attempted Suicide After JFK Assassination" 

Oct. 27, 2022 Belvedere retired Secret Service Agent Shares His "Travels with Mrs. Kennedy" 

Oct. 27, 2022 ABC News "My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy" 

Oct. 27, 2022 InForum "North Dakota native recalls years spent traveling the world with Jackie Kennedy" 

Oct. 25, 2022 Kennedy Dynasty Podcast "My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy with Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin" 

Oct. 27, 2022 Politics is Everything Podcast "Democracy hangs there by a threat" with Clint Hill 

Oct. 29, 2022 Leaders and Legends

October 2022 Booklist Starred Review: My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

October 1, 2022 Kirkus Reviews: My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

Sept. 1, 2022 Publishers Weekly: My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy 

Apr. 6, 2022 PEOPLE Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service Agent Announces Book of Rare Photos and Stories from Their Travels 

Feb. 21, 2022 The Way I Heard It Podcast with Mike Rowe "The Best Business Card in History" 

May 14, 2019: Town and Country: The Clint

Sept. 5, 2018 PEOPLE How Betty Ford's daughter staged an intervention to save her Mom's life

Sept. 7, 2018 PEOPLE Melania Trump called Betty Ford "traditional" but Betty's daughter disagrees  

Sept. 11, 2018 Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Betty Ford

Sept. 12, 2018 The Wall Street Journal 'Betty Ford' Review: A Number One First Lady 

Sept. 13, 2018 The Washington Post Book Review of Betty Ford

Sept. 14, 2018 Fox17 Interview: Lisa McCubbin describes writing process behind Betty Ford biography 

Apr 13, 2018: "Betty Ford at 100" Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan 

Apr 11, 2018 WWMT-TV "Centennial Celebration honored 'the former First Lady Betty Ford" 

March 16, 2022
First ladies help fight the good fight during war

April 25, 2021
In “The Triumph of Nancy Reagan,” her deeply researched and compellingly crafted biography of the 40th president’s second wife, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty paints a striking portrait of how this unique partnership shaped Ronald Reagan’s political career, from the California governor’s mansion to the White House.
On the world stage, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime | Miller Center

February 9, 2021
America’s latest first lady is breaking with tradition as the first presidential spouse to keep her job while in the White House. Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education, is an English | Voice of America

August 31, 2020
How John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt went from rivals to allies | Miller Center

August 25, 2020
Melania Trump's task at the Republican Convention | Dallas News

July 30, 2020
Honoring the Birthday of Mrs. Kennedy: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy - Style Icon or Cold Warrior? | White House Historical Association

June 25, 2020
Season 4, Episode 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and JFK | JFK Library

November 11, 2013
First Ladies-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy | CSPAN

'Race for the White House' - CNN
Note: I was the scholar-consultant on this series and appeared in all the episodes, including the one on 2008, which includes Hillary's contest with Obama for the nomination.

May 4, 2022
Jill Biden to visit displaced Ukrainians in Eastern Europe

May 15, 2021
Jill Biden Is Exactly What Washington, D.C., Needs: A Philly Girl | Philadelphia Magazine

November 1, 2020
The Media-Savvy First Lady | Journalism History Podcast

August 25, 2020
First Lady Melania Trump to Speak at Night Two of the RNC Convention | NBC10 Philadelphia

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

Nov. 17, 2021
In Her Quiet Way, Jill Biden Reinvents Role Of US First Lady

October 15, 2021
Jill Biden travels to Virginia, New Jersey to help Democrats | AP News

Sept 7, 2021
Jill Biden resumes teaching in person at Northern Virginia Community College as a working first lady - ABC7 San Francisco (abc7news.com)

March 8, 2021
Jill Biden Sees Teachable Moment in the Depths of a Pandemic | Associated Press

September 27, 2020
Political Spouses: Their Impact on the Campaign Trail | The News Virginian

August 5, 2020
Michelle Obama, l’Atout Gagnant de Joe Biden dans la Presidentielle Americaine | L’Express

August 25, 2020
Melania Trump Taking Rose Garden Turn to Pitch Her Husband | The Associated Press

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

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. 

As the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society Catherine Allgor is a noted historian, non-profit leader, and public history innovator.  Previously, she had been the Nadine and Robert Skotheim Director of Education at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, and a former Professor of History and UC Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside. 

Allgor attended Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar and received her Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University, where she also won the Yale Teaching Award.  Her dissertation received a prize as the best dissertation in American History at Yale and The Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. Women's History.  She began her teaching career at Simmons College and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University.

Her first book, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (University Press of Virginia, 2000), won the James H. Broussard First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Book Award.  Her political biography, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (Henry Holt, 2006), was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.  In 2012, she published Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity (Westview Press) and The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison (University of Virginia Press). 

President Obama has appointed Allgor to a presidential commission, The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.   Catherine Allgor also serves on boards and committees for the National Women’s History Museum, the Organization of American Historians, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute, among others.

Dr. Allgor's first lady expertise is on Dolley Madison and Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams.

Myra Gutin, Ph.D. is the Founding President of FLARE and a Founding Lifetime Member. Dr. Gutin is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Media at Rider University. She has studied first ladies since working on her doctorate and attended the first national first ladies conference convened by Betty Ford in 1984. She is the author of The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century and Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch. She contributed to Report to the First Lady, a compendium of articles about the history and function of the Office of the First Lady that was presented to former first lady Laura Bush.

A frequent media commentator, she has written book chapters, journal articles, op. ed. pieces  and has made numerous presentations at national and regional communication conferences. Myra served as a special consultant to the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling first ladies exhibit during its sojourn at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, spoke about former first lady Barbara Bush as part of C-SPAN’s American First Ladies series and spoke about first ladies at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia during the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Bio blurb: Barbara Perry is the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where she co-directs the Presidential Oral History Program. She is the author of Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier and a forthcoming book on the political relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and John Kennedy.