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Acknowledgments
Bringing Down the Colonel represents a ten-year project of historical excavation. The Breckinridge-Pollard scandal was all but forgotten by history, dismissed as a tawdry sex scandal. But the history of women is inextricably tied up with the history of sex, and from the moment I discovered the scandal I knew it was an important chapter in the history of the social, political, and sexual emancipation of women. I have incurred many debts along the road of restoring the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal to history. I am especially indebted to the staff at the Library of Congress, particularly the staff at the Manuscript Reading Room, which holds the Breckinridge Family Papers, and the staff at the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, whose vast resources allowed me to access newspaper coverage from key nineteenth-century newspapers from Washington, New York, Cincinnati, Kentucky, and beyond. The staff in the Microform Reading Room helped me track down and access one of the few extant copies of Jennie Tucker’s The Real Madeleine Pollard. I am also indebted to Janice Ruth of the Manuscript Division, one of the conveners of the Library of Congress Women’s History and Gender Studies Discussion Group, for the invaluable suggestion to track Madeline Pollard’s post-trial life through immigration records, which allowed me to build a picture of her vibrant life abroad from the late 1890s until her death in 1945.
I am also indebted to the staff at Historic New England, especially Abigail Cramer and Stephanie Krauss, for their assistance with the Tucker Family Papers and photos. I would also like to thank Jennifer Cole at the Filson Historical Society for her assistance with Julia Blackburn’s letters; Matthew Harris and Gordon Hogg of the Special Collections and Research Center at the University of Kentucky for their assistance with the Madeline McDowell Breckinridge letters and various other resources; and Jonathan Jeffrey at Western Kentucky University’s Library of Special Collections for assistance with the Green Family Papers. I am also indebted to Tara Craig at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and to the archivists at the John Hay Library at Brown University, the Manuscript and Archives Division at the New York Public Library, the Historical Society of Washington Reading Room, the Booth Family Center for Special Collections at Georgetown University, the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, the Wright State University Libraries, and the Huntington Library.
I would like to thank the Reverend Jim Stewart of the Presbyterian Church in Danville, Kentucky, for providing me with a copy of The Presbyterians: Two Hundred Years in Danville, and Lois Ewald of Hephzibah House in New York for answering my questions about Margaret Thorne’s founding of Hephzibah House and her activities in the 1890s.
I am indebted as always to my friend and mentor Kristin Luker for our regular chats that helped me shape Bringing Down the Colonel, her support and encouragement during the long course of this project, and her as always helpful reading of my manuscript. I would also like to thank Susan Rabiner for graciously reading and commenting on an early draft of the proposal for this book. My gratitude also goes to my friend Dan Sterenchuk for his helpful comments on the first draft of the manuscript.
My thanks especially to my agent, Geri Thoma, for believing in this project as much as I did and for bringing me to the wonderful Sarah Crichton at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, whose skillful editing, insight, and encouragement have been invaluable, and to Kate Sanford for her editing and support of this project. I would also like to thank Maureen Klier for her meticulous copyediting of the manuscript, and the first-rate design, production, and publicity staff at Farrar, Straus and Giroux for their work in bringing this book to fruition.
And as always, my deepest thanks and gratitude to my most faithful companions in life and over the course of this book: my always wonderful and supportive husband, Anthony Spadafore, who has heard more about Willie Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard than anyone deserves and yet always encouraged me to soldier on, and my lovely dog Rosie, who always reminded me when it was time to put the past down and go for a walk.
Index
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Abbott, Edith
Abbott, Grace
abortion
Academy of the Holy Cross
Acton, William
Actors Protective Union of New York
Adams, Abigail
Adams, Henry
Adams, John
Adams, Marian “Clover”
Addams, Jane
African Americans; Breckinridge family’s views on race; civil rights for; housing discrimination and; slavery and, see slaves, slavery; women
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Alaska
Albany Business College
Albany Law Journal
Alcott, Louisa May
Alien and Sedition Acts
Allen, James Lane
Allen, John Mills
Allen, Nathan
Alpha
Alpha Doctrine
Ambrose, Mrs.
American colonies
American frontier
American Medical Association
American Revolution
Anthony, Lucy
Anthony, Susan B.
Arcos, Duke of
Aron, Cindy Sondik
Ashland district
Association of Collegiate Alumnae
Atlantic, The
Aurand, A. Monroe, Jr.
Avery, Charles
Baker, William
Ball, George
Ballard, Jonathan
Ballard, Martha
Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine
Barrows, Isabel
Barton, Clara
Bayard, Florence
Bayard, Thomas Francis
Beard, Frank
Beaver Island Club
Beck, James
Beech, Bessie
Beecher, Henry Ward
Bell, Charles
Benson, Susan Porter
Bible
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