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. with distinction from Yale University, where she also won the Yale Teaching Award. Allgor attended Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar and received her Ph.D. 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. The answer may surprise you!Ĭatherine Allgor is the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 2017. Find out how coverture still haunts us and what we can do about it. It remains, like a ghost in our legal machine. It was not, and the new nation began with coverture in place. During the American Revolution, with ideas of freedom, inalienable rights, and Enlightenment everywhere, American women had every expectation that this ancient oppression would be addressed. This holdover from our British colonial days held that married white women did not legally exist. The word that every American should know is–coverture. Tune in for the first NHA University virtual lectu re with Catherine Allgor via Zoom. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship Private Events Make your Event Historic!.
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