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Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame talked about the complicated political and personal partnership between the 16th president and his wife. Drawing on 30 years of research, his book is An Am…

Paul Sparrow looked at the personal and political partnership between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt that captivated the nation and transformed how the federal government interacted with the…

Katherine Jellison of Ohio University explained that scholars, and even the general public, tend to narrowly categorize first ladies. She showed that they are more complicated than that, usi…

Michelle Obama moved into the White House 45 years after President Lyndon B. Johnson shepherded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. Seven of her predecessors had moved in to the executive…

The National Archives Foundation presented former first lady Laura Bush with its “Records of Achievement Award” at a gala in Washington, D.C. Before the award presentation, the former first …