Olive Hoogenboom
1451 East 21st Street
Brooklyn, New York 11210
(718) 253-4179
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Associate Editor and Writing fellow, American National Biography, 1990-1999
Church Historian, First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, 1987-present.
BOOKS
Co-edited with Ari Hoogenboom, The Gilded Age (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: PrenticeHall, Inc.,1967), 184 pp.
Co-edited with Ari Hoogenboom, An Interdisciplinary Approach to American History, 2
vols. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973)
Co-authored with Ari Hoogenboom, A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.., 1976), 207 pp.
The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn: One Hundred Fifty Years (Brooklyn: the First
Unitarian Church, 1987), 459 pp.
“First Lady Lucy Hayes” and “President Rutherford B. Hayes,” two children’s
biographies slated to be published simultaneously by the Hayes Presidential Center.
“Washington Women: The Woodbury Sisters.” This work in progress is a biography of
four socially prominent and politically connected Gilded Age sisters. Blair House, the
home of Minna Woodbury Blair, the oldest of the sisters, is now the nation’s guest house.
BOOK CHAPTER
“Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1831-1889): First Lady: 1877-1881,” in Lewis L. Gould, ed.,
American First ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy (New York: Routledge, 2001), 468
pp.
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SELECTED ARTICLES
“Elizabeth Arden, Irene Castle, Edna Woolman Chase, Mary garden, Hedda Hopper,
Dorothy Mae Kilgallen, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Billy Rose,
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt,” Dictionary of American Biography, Supplements Six to
Eight.
Co-authored with Ari Hoogenboom, “Was Boss Tweed Really Snow White?”
“Denigrating E.L. Godkin,” “Francis Preston Blair and the Image of Andrew Jackson,”
Reviews in American History 5 (1977): 360-66, 7 (1979): 224-28, 9 (1981): 76-81.
“Interstate Commerce,” in Jack P. Greene, ed., Encyclopedia of American Political
History: Studies of the Principal movements and Ideas, 3 vols. (New York: charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1984), 2: 636-61.
Co-authored with Ari Hoogenboom, “Alfred T. White: Settlement Worker and Housing
Reformer,” Hayes Historical Journal: A Journal of the Gilded Age 9 (Fall, 1989), 5-30.
“Mary Baker Eddy” in Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, eds., The reader’s companion to
American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991), 312.
“Mary Baker Eddy,” in John A. Garraty, ed., The Young Reader’s Companion to
American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994)
EDUCATION
M.A., 1955, Columbia University
B.A., 1949, Atlantic Union College
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