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First Name
Katherine
Last Name
Scott
Country
United States
State
MD Maryland
Affiliation
U.S. Senate Historical Office
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Keywords
U.S. politics; women in politics; U.S. Senate; 20th century social movements; policy history; public history
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MONOGRAPHS

Reining in the State: Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Eras (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas), 2013

 

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Robert C. Byrd: Tactician and Technician,” with James Wyatt, in Colton Campbell, ed., Leadership in the U.S. Senate: Herding Cats in the Modern Era (New York: Routledge), 2018

“A Safety Valve: The Truman Committee’s Oversight during World War II,” in Colton Campbell and David Auerswald, eds., Congress and Civil-Military Relations (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press), 2015

“Nixon and Dissent,” in Melvin Small, ed., A Companion to Richard M. Nixon (New York: Wiley-Blackwell), 2011

 

BRIEF ARTICLES AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons), 2015

“’An Idea Whose Time Has Come’: Congress and the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Insights on Law & Society (14) 2, Winter 2014, 27-29

“A Superpower Foundation: The National Security Act of 1947,” in Max Angerholzer, James Kitfield, Chris Lu, and Norm Ornstein, eds., Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Congress (New York: Praeger), 2014

“The Fate of the Filibuster,” Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, http://emkinstitute.org/updates/entry/the-fate-of-the-filibuster

“A New Classroom: From the Lecture Hall to the United States Senate,” in The Federalist, Newsletter of the Society for History in the Federal Government, Fall 2010

“Students for a Democratic Society,” in The Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications), 2007

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
North America
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Diplomacy, Gender, Government, Politics, Public History, Women