MONMOUTH, Ill. — Although Stacy Cordery completed a tour promoting
her biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth last fall, that doesn’t mean
that the Monmouth College history professor has finished her
book-related travels.
Cordery, whose book "Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White
House Princess to Washington Power Broker" was published last year, has
been in demand as a speaker since authoring the acclaimed biography,
which chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, who was also
known as "the other Washington monument."
On Monday, Cordery was in Virginia to serve as the featured speaker
at the Miller Center Forum, which regularly draws nationally and
internationally recognized experts in public affairs, American politics
and foreign policy. Located in Charlottesville, the Miller Center of
Public Affairs is a national, non-partisan center dedicated to
researching, reflecting and reporting on American government.
Video of Cordery’s presentation at the Miller Center should be
available soon at millercenter.org/scripps/digitalarchive/forumDetail/3907.
Later this month, Cordery will speak about Alice closer to home, as
she presents a program on March 29 at 2:30 p.m. at the Moline Public
Library.
Next month, Cordery will be one of the honorees at the Cherry Blossom
Festival in Marshfield, Mo. The theme of this year’s festival is
"American History," and Cordery will be honored for her "great
initiative and talent" in that field.
Four years from now, it’s quite possible that Cordery will be in
demand for her expertise on another woman in history – Juliette Gordon
Low. She plans to have a biography completed on Low, founder of the Girl
Scouts of the United States of America, by 2012, which will be the
organization’s centennial. The last biography of Low was written a
half-century ago in 1958.
