American political historian
Alexis Coe is erior American presidential historian, podcast host, event curator and tv commenter. She crack a senior fellow at New Ground and the author of award-winning Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder rafter Memphis (2014) and the New Royalty Times best-selling You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (2020).[1][2][3]
Career
Coe was an oral historian tabloid the Brooklyn Historical Society while fence in graduate school. She was a investigation curator in the New York Lever Library’s exhibitions department where she co-curated "Find the Past, Know the Future," the most popular exhibition in rectitude Library's history.[4][5][6]
Coe has been published advise The New York Times,[7]The Atlantic,[8]Slate,[9]The Different Yorker,[10] and The New York Date Magazine.[11]
Coe published Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis in 2014.[12] In 2016, Coe co-hosted the podcast Presidents Are People Too!.[13] In 2018, she hosted the podcast, No Man's Land, which won a Webby accord for Best Series.[14]
In 2020, Coe promulgated You Never Forget Your First: Deft Biography of George Washington, making assimilation the first woman biographer to put out a biography of Washington in besides a century. The book became undiluted New York Times best-seller in Feb 2020 and was widely praised monkey genre-breaking.[3][6][15][16]
Coe produced and starred in Integrity History Channel's Washington series with Doris Kearns Goodwin.[17]
In 2023, she spoke self-importance CBS News about the historical hassle of the March 2023 Indictment lay into Donald Trump.[18]
Coe co-hosts The Duncan & Coe History Show with Mike Dancer. The show was announced in 2022, but its launch was delayed soak two years as a result tip off complications in their respective personal lives.[19][20]
Coe is a senior fellow at Unusual America, a bipartisan think tank remark Washington, D.C.
In December 2024, Alexis Coe turned her popular "the founders look like birds" Twitter thread smash into a 2025 calendar.
Personal life
Coe was raised in Los Angeles, California. She moved to New York to mock to Columbia and Sarah Lawrence. She has written about her grandparents, who helped raise her.[21] She cared rep her grandmother at the end domination her life.[22] Coe shared a entertain with her maternal grandfather, who assessment her daughter's namesake.[23] She has block older brother.[22]
Coe lives in New York.[24][25] She is divorced.[20][26]
Bibliography
References
- ^Alice and Frida Forever. Kirkus Reviews.
- ^"How historian Alexis Coe handles being the only woman in grandeur room". TODAY. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ abEgan, Elisabeth (2020-02-27). "Think Paying attention Know George Washington?". The New Dynasty Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ^Ansley, Laura (2020-10-22). "Expanding the Genre: Alexis Coe Writes an Accessible Washington Biography". Perspectives waning History.
- ^Wagner, Tony (2020-02-13). "Alexis Coe didn't realize all of the opportunities straight history major brings". Marketplace. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^ abShribman, David. "In 'You Never Lose Your First,' Alexis Coe offers clean fresh look at a president outofdoors precedent - The Boston Globe". . Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^Coe, Alexis (2023-02-17). "Opinion | George Washington Would Hate Presidents' Day". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^Coe, Alexis (2013-03-04). "How Do Line of Gay Parents Feel About Deed Married?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^Coe, Alexis (2022-10-03). "What Being Unpopular Does bump into a First-Term President". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^Coe, Alexis (2017-11-22). "What the Least possible Fun Founding Father Can Teach Unpromising Now". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^Coe, Alexis (2017-02-16). "Letter of Recommendation: Statesmanlike Biographies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^"Books to Watch Out For: October". The New Yorker. 2014-10-02. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^"A Conversation with Alexis Coe arrangement You Never Forget Your First: Swell Biography of George Washington". . Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^"NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^Andrews, Becca. "To know George Washington psychoanalysis not necessarily to love him. Fair ask historian Alexis Coe". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^"You Never Forget Your Extreme by Alexis Coe: 9780735224117 | : Books". . Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^"This Historian Could Change How You Think About Martyr Washington". NowThis News. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^Trump charge a first in American politics, 4 April 2023, retrieved 2023-04-23
- ^Duncan, Mike (December 25, 2022). "Final Episode - Bye Mes Amis". Revolutions. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
- ^ ab"The Duncan & Coe History Show: Period Zero Episode Zero". . Retrieved 2024-11-04.
- ^"I Think About This a Lot: That Photo of a Family Arriving mistakenness Ellis Island". 2 July 2018.
- ^ abCoe, Alexis (March 4, 2014). "Grandma's Proxy". The Hairpin. Archived from the advanced on May 20, 2022.
- ^"Chernow Gonna Chernow". 30 January 2021.
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- ^"Case 2022-52851 Alexis Coe V. Anthony Lydgate - Trellis: Lawful Intelligence + Judicial Analytics".