You'll love hearing about the wonderful romances of past presidents.
So what does Lady Washington have to say? Was it a love match? Or was it merely a partnership of mutual convenience?
It is nearly impossible to find an historian who can evaluate Mary Todd Lincoln without either claiming her to be a termagant that made Lincoln’s life a misery – or one of the most misunderstood characters who ever lived. Her supporters usually are in a position of being apologists rather than devotees.
Always ready for a party, Mrs. Madison decided on an Inaugural Ball held at Long’s Hotel near the Capitol to commemorate the occasion.
The First Vice President-to-President, the First President to Remarry, and the President with the most children – fourteen – John Tyler was unique in his day or in any day.
The Widow Mary would have a tenuous and tragic relationship with her son Robert Lincoln for the remaining years of her life.
It’s hard to believe – grouchy, grumpy Grover Cleveland as a newlywed! It is true, however. Bachelor President Grover Cleveland, at age 49, was married in the White House.
For 150 years, historians have evaluated the presidential performance of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Historians usually side with the winners, and Lincoln wins in a walk.
Most people don’t know that Theodore Roosevelt, yes, the icon of Mt. Rushmore, was a Junior.
Few Presidential homes provide the essence of the men who lived there than Monticello and Sagamore Hill.
Lucy Hayes has gone down in history as “Lemonade Lucy” – but did she ban liquor in the White House?
Garfield was another of those Dark Horse Presidents of the nineteenth century, barely known outside his immediate circle of Congressional peers.
Dolley Madison spent the last decade of her life poor in finances, but rich in friendships.
History Books always claim that the assassin of President James A. Garfield was a disgruntled office seeker – but was that really the case?
First Ladies are technically the leaders of Washington society, but there were always some nipping at Mary Lincoln’s heels.
Varina Anne Davis was practically born to tragedy. She was the second daughter and sixth child born to Jefferson and Varina Davis.
Jackie O. On The Couch is one of those rare delicacies that walks the fine line between fiction (written in the first person) and fact – seriously researched.
