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Dogs »

• The Agoraphobic Dog: Fostercare Weimaraner #4, Baron The Dichotomus
  March 25, 2013
• Jackie Kennedy’s Dogged Influence on JFK Jr. & Canine-Themed Homes
  March 1, 2013
• The Dogs of Jackie O: Jacqueline Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions
  February 28, 2013
• To All Readers: Help These Dogs, Please.
  December 29, 2012
• Watching Whitmore: The ‘Frisco Whippet Who Brought Me Places
  July 30, 2012
• Insult Comic Dog Triumph Poised for 2012 Election
  June 20, 2012
• How A Dying Neighbor & Dying Dog Helped Each Other Live: The Tale of Snackhouse
  June 3, 2012
• A Dog hurt by Neglect: Fostercare Weimaraner #3, Beamer
  June 2, 2012
• A Dog Up For Fun: Fostercare Weimaraner #2: Weimy
  June 1, 2012
• A Dog on the Verge of Loss: Fostercare Weimaraner #1 Paddinginton
  May 9, 2012
• The White House Easter Egg Roll: Traditions, First Families & A Day for Dogs
  April 4, 2012
• Helping Yourself Help A Very Old Dog Live Longer and Well, Part II
  November 14, 2011
• Helping A Very Old Dog Live Longer and Well (Part 1)
  November 11, 2011
• The World’s Best Dog: A Tribute to Yeager the Weimaraner, 1995-2011
  July 5, 2011
• This Old Dog Dons the St. Paddy’s Green
  March 16, 2011
• An Old Dog’s Last Runyon Run? A Walk in the Park
  February 9, 2011
• When Is a Dog Old?
  February 2, 2011
• Reign of King Fido Enters Tenth Year
  January 1, 2011

Facebook of the Famous »

• Lindsay Lohan to Madame Curie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  March 21, 2013
• “Aunt Esther” to Queen Victoria: Three Degrees of Celebrity Separation!
  May 25, 2012
• Twilight’s Robert Pattinson & Taylor Lautner to Laurel & Hardy: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  May 3, 2012
• Tupak Shakur to Minnie Pearl: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  April 22, 2012
• Rick Santorum Linked to Satanic Marilyn Manson: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  February 23, 2012
• Jackie O to Jolie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  January 6, 2012
• Sartre to Snookie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  December 3, 2011
• Evita to Elvis: Facebook of the Famous
  November 30, 2011
• Marilyn Monroe to Saddam Hussein to Brittany Spears: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  November 16, 2011
• Mao to Fred Mertz: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  October 22, 2011
• The Wright Brothers to the Kardashian Sisters: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  September 21, 2011
• Abe Lincoln to Pee Wee Herman: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  August 31, 2011
• Mao to Lady Gaga: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  August 19, 2011
• Mae to Mao: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
  August 9, 2011

First Families »

• Obama’s Girls, Teddy’s Boys, Jackie Kennedy’s Kindergarten: School Tales of White House Kids
  February 8, 2013
• Bush Grandsons Entering Politics, Trying to Turn the Latino Vote Republican
  February 1, 2013
• President Grandpa: How The Lives of First Grandkids Play Out
  January 31, 2013
• What Happened to a Little Boy Who Defied the President?
  January 24, 2013
• Presidential Kids at the Inauguration
  January 21, 2013
• That Mysterious Woman at Obama’s Sunday Inaugural Ceremony & Historical Context
  January 20, 2013
• Ike’s Mid-Century Cold War Show & High Visibility Veep: The 1957 Sunday Inauguration, Part 6
  January 10, 2013
• A Day With No President & Lincoln’s Lost Coat: Zach Taylor’s 1849 Sunday Inauguration, Part 3
  January 7, 2013
• Monroe’s Inaudible Address & a Small Ball: The 1817 Sunday Inauguration, Part 2
  January 6, 2013
• Five First Families Celebrate New Year’s Eve
  December 29, 2012
• Christmas at the White House: First Families at Home for the Holiday, Part 4
  December 10, 2012
• Christmas at the White House: First Families & Holiday Charities, Part 3
  December 8, 2012
• Christmas at the White House: Trees, Gingerbread Houses, Mennorahs, Celebrity Santas & Other Innovations, Part 2
  December 6, 2012
• Christmas at the White House: The President’s Presents, Shopping, Giving & Getting Gifts, Part 1 of 4
  December 5, 2012
• Thanks to Presidents Giving Us Turkey Day & Pictures of First Family Thanksgivings
  November 20, 2012
• Ten Election Day Moments of Presidential Families
  November 6, 2012
• White House Halloweens: Jackie Kennedy, FDR, Reagan, Hillary & More in Costume
  October 21, 2012
• Swedish Roots: Mamie Eisenhower’s Iowa-Sprung Ancestry
  September 20, 2012
• A First Lady’s Princess Complex: Royalty, Racism & Edith Wilson’s Pocahontas Blood
  September 18, 2012
• Pat Nixon: First-Generation German-American & Her Lincoln Assassination Link
  September 7, 2012
• Ann Romney’s Atheist Immigrant Father & What Hillary Clinton Shares With Her
  August 28, 2012
• When Ann Romney & Michelle Obama Sat Down To Talk
  August 27, 2012
• Blond Bigotry, Anti-Semitism & Why a Candidate’s Wife Fabricated Her Family
  August 11, 2012
• Inside the Winter White House: The 70s Nixon Florida Home
  July 20, 2012
• Eleanor Roosevelt’s Mysteriously Missing Grandfather & was she part-Italian?
  July 2, 2012
• Keep Grandma Upstairs: Jackie Kennedy’s Family Secrets & The Lie Her Mother Told
  July 1, 2012
• Michelle Obama’s Slave Ancestry, Ann Romney’s Atheist Immigrant Father & Presidential Identity Politics
  June 27, 2012
• When Mitt Romney’s Father Ran For President
  October 14, 2011
• The Inside on the Ex-President: Always Centered
  January 16, 2011

First Ladies »

• Jackie Kennedy’s Mid-Century Modern Luncheon: Part 6, At War with Newswomen
  May 16, 2013
• Jackie Kennedy’s Mid-Century Modern Luncheon: Part 5, Intention & Achievement
  May 9, 2013
• Jackie Kennedy’s Mid-Century Modern Luncheon: Part 4, The Subversive Senate Wife
  May 7, 2013
• Jackie Kennedy’s Mid-Century Luncheon: Part 3, Reporter Bouvier on the Job
  May 2, 2013
• Jackie Kennedy’s Mid-Century Modern Luncheon: Part 2, Covering First Ladies
  April 30, 2013
• Jackie Kennedy’s Mid-Century Modern Luncheon: Part I, The Kodachrome Years
  April 26, 2013
• Michelle Obama’s Chicago Speech in Historic Context
  April 12, 2013
• First Photographed First Lady: A Girl Elopes with the President & Brands Her Image
  March 27, 2013
• The first First Lady to Doll a Magazine Cover: “Hello…..Mrs. Madison.”
  March 6, 2013
• The Reagans Host Old Hollywood & New “Royalty” at the White House
  February 24, 2013
• The Untold Mary Lincoln Story Spielberg Couldn’t Show & None Seem to Know
  February 22, 2013
• The Earliest First Lady’s Recorded Voice: Theodore Roosevelt’s wife Edith Speaks
  February 15, 2013
• A First Lady Fears She Wouldn’t Shut Up: Abigail “Mrs. President” Adams, January 29, 1797
  January 29, 2013
• At the Heart of Hillary Clinton: A First Lady of the World’s Core Values
  January 27, 2013
• A Short History of First Lady Hair’Dos & its Big Bang Theory
  January 24, 2013
• Masses Crowd Two Centuries of Inaugural Balls
  January 16, 2013
• The Very First Inaugural Ball: Hot for Her, Not for Him
  January 16, 2013
• Bomb Threats, Suffragists & Wilson’s Broken Pledge: The 1917 Sunday Inauguration, Part 5
  January 9, 2013
• The Secret Ceremony of Hayes & a First Lady Who Wouldn’t Leave: The 1877 Sunday Inauguration, Part 4
  January 9, 2013
• A Centennial Gallery of Lady Bird Johnson & her “First Ladies Sorority”
  December 22, 2012
• Mamie Cakes: The First Lady Who Showed A Nation How to Birthday Party
  November 14, 2012
• The Grandsons of Bobby, Jack & Jackie Kennedy: A New Political Generation
  November 7, 2012
• Promising Chickens, Delivering an Egg: Food Helps Hoover Win Election
  November 3, 2012
• How the Michelle Obama & Ann Romney Cookie Contest Started: Blame Mrs. Harrison’s Pigs-in-a-Blanket
  October 5, 2012
• “Beerack” Obama’s Home Brew is Latest Chapter In Presidential Booze Story
  September 30, 2012
• The First President To Win With Actors: Al Jolson’s 1920 Campaign Song for Harding
  September 26, 2012
• Dynasty to Fantasy Island: An Eighties TV Star Galaxy at Ronald Reagan’s White House
  September 5, 2012
• The Road to Michelle Obama’s Convention Speech: The First Ladies & Candidates’ Wives Before Her
  September 4, 2012
• Why a First Lady Cashed In: Eleanor Roosevelt & The Equal Rights of Margarine
  August 25, 2012
• My Chats with Gore Vidal on the Presidents & First Ladies
  August 13, 2012

Holidays »

• Happy Easter: Sponsored by Nature, in Blue & Purple
  March 31, 2013
• Secret Black Sheep Peep? Easter Candy Mystery, Scandal & Father of the Jellybean
  March 30, 2013
• Indy-Chinese New Year: Early Chinese-Americans & The Holiday, Hooiser Style
  February 13, 2013
• Mobile Mardi Gras: Alabama’s French Catholic Holiday First-in-the-Nation
  February 12, 2013
• The Greek Epiphany Day…in Florida
  January 3, 2013
• The Armistice, A Day My Grandfather Never Surrendered
  November 12, 2012
• McGuire or Maguire: Who Fathered Labor Day?
  September 3, 2012
• Red, White & Betsy Ross: No, She Didn’t! (Did She?) Plus Bizarre Betsyabilia
  July 3, 2012
• A Daughter’s Fight for Father’s Day & Why It Made Men Grumble
  June 16, 2012
• Flagging the Lost Holiday that Was Today & A Gallery of past Flag Day Joys
  June 14, 2012
• The Mad Men Era White House Easter Egg Roll, 1961
  April 6, 2012
• Lincoln Son’s Concern for Disabled Boy Starts White House Easter Egg Roll
  April 5, 2012
• Jack and Jackie Kennedy Home Movies & Pictures of their Presidential Easters
  April 3, 2012
• What Were Those Leprechauns Thinking?
  March 17, 2012
• New Evidence Tells Truth of George Washington’s Cherry Tree Tale
  February 20, 2012
• Kitschy, Kitschy Cute: Interpreting Old Valentine’s Day Vases
  February 14, 2012
• The White House New Year’s Day Reception: Good Riddance to a Miserable Tradition
  January 1, 2012
• Old-School New Year’s Day Food: From the South, North or Midwest – its Imported
  December 30, 2011
• Sex Lives of the Pilgrims: Girls Gone Wild, Gay Guys, An Orgy, Incest & Goodwives Chasing Native Men
  November 23, 2011
• Cracking Plymouth Rock
  November 23, 2011
• The Four Best Presidential Pumpkin Pies: From the first Adams and Johnson, Ike & Reagan
  November 20, 2011
• Mother’s Day, the Guilty Daughter and Mamma’s-Boy President Behind It
  May 8, 2011
• Earliest Image of St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York, Recently Discovered?
  March 17, 2011

Hollywood Meets Washington »

• Another First Lady at the Oscars (& President & First Daughter)
  February 24, 2013
• Chaplin, Streisand, Sinatra & More: The Inaugural Gala That Was
  January 18, 2013
• Reagan’s 1985 Big Chill Sunday Inauguration with Videos, Part 7
  January 11, 2013
• Obama Rescues Campaign Tradition: Vote for President…with the Best Music
  October 24, 2012
• Fighting Bigotry Shaped Truman’s 1948 Campaign Tunes (& Carmen Miranda Sang One)
  October 8, 2012
• Cool but Contemplative: Jolson Jazzes with Coolidge’s 1924 Campaign Song
  September 27, 2012
• Sinatra at Jack’s Back: The John F. Kennedy 1960 Campaign Song
  September 24, 2012
• Bill Clinton’s Song: He Never Stops Thinking ‘Bout….
  September 6, 2012
• Ike, Irving, Mamie & Merman: The Hit Song Which Elected a President
  August 2, 2012
• Ronald Reagan & Bette Davis: Politically Oppositional Co-Stars
  July 26, 2012
• Miami Golf and UFOs? Why Jackie Gleason Campaigned for Nixon and a Shocking Allegation
  July 19, 2012
• Reagan Campaigns for Truman
  June 28, 2012
• JFK with the World’s Hottest Actresses and….Hazel the Maid?!
  June 17, 2012
• Super-Seventies Movie! The Nixons & John Wayne, the Gabors, Mary Tyler Moore, Glen Campbell, Lawrence Welk & More!
  May 26, 2012
• Other Photos & Stars from Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Night to JFK & His Reaction
  May 19, 2012
• The Most Shocking Truth About JFK & Marilyn Monroe?
  May 18, 2012
• Jackie’s Husband & the Onassis Mistress: When John F. Kennedy and Maria Callas Got Together (and Marilyn Monroe)
  May 14, 2012
• Silent Cal & The Silent Era Cowboy: Coolidge Mix with Tom
  May 6, 2012
• “Hello Lyndon!” How Carol Channing Helped LBJ Win the Election
  April 13, 2012
• George & George Clooney & Bush, Wars & Hurricanes
  February 26, 2012
• First Ladies & Actresses Who Played Them: Vote Your Favorite
  February 25, 2012
• Those Liberal Aristocrats Katharine Hepburn & Franklin D. Roosevelt
  January 29, 2012
• The Del Rubio Triplets in Go-Go Boots & Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in Gloves
  January 20, 2012
• Jimmy Carter and Marcel Marceau: Nothing to Say
  January 2, 2012
• Gemini Twins Jack Kennedy and Judy Garland
  November 18, 2011
• Mamie & Mame, The Rosalind Russell – Mamie Eisenhower Friendship
  October 15, 2011
• Nancy Reagan & Gary Coleman…and Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck & Brooke Shields
  September 23, 2011
• Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights, Part II
  August 26, 2011
• Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights
  August 22, 2011
• Playing Presidents: The Actor JFK (and Jackie) wanted to Play him in the Movies, Part III
  April 7, 2011

Legends »

• Felix Baumgartner Left Earth Today to Free-Fall Thru the Sound Barrier…And History
  October 14, 2012
• Mae West Nude, Getting Naked, Fighting Father Time…and Living
  August 14, 2012
• Mae Day 1966: 72-Year Old Mae West Decides to Rock and Roll
  May 1, 2012
• The Greatest Forgotten Celebrity: What Did Admiral Dewey Do?
  March 7, 2012
• The Duke of Surfing Who Got the Queen Mother to Hula
  August 24, 2011
• The Heroic Astronaut: John Glenn is 90 Years Old Today
  July 18, 2011

Pies of the States »

• Lime, Salt & Peggy Lee: The Texas Margarita Pie
  July 6, 2012
• Orange Pie Here I Come: California’s Sweetest Slice of Sun
  June 13, 2012
• Hoosier Sugar Cream Finger Pie, from the Indy 500 to the Quakers: Pies of the States
  May 28, 2012
• Tennessee’s Jack & Mary Fudge Pie
  May 12, 2012
• The Saucy Pie of Granite State Skinflints
  April 10, 2012
• Marion Berry: Not the DC Mayor, the Oregon Pie
  March 10, 2012
• Gooseberry, Fool?! No, Pie – from Pennsylvania
  January 31, 2011

Presidents »

• The Double Rarity of Obama’s 2013 Sunday Second Inauguration, Part 1
  January 4, 2013
• Who Won This Election? You Might Be Surprised
  November 6, 2012
• Peanut, Big Mac & Jelly Bean: The Brief Era of Presidential Campaign Snacks
  November 5, 2012
• The Drunk Vote: Harrison Hard Cider vs. Van Buren Champagne in 1840 Election
  November 2, 2012
• Yes He Did: Originality Returns with 2008 Obama Campaign Music
  October 19, 2012
• The Twinges and Twang of George W. Bush’s 2000 & 2004 Campaign Music
  October 15, 2012
• The Echo & Dissonance of George Bush’s 1988 Campaign Music
  October 13, 2012
• A Reagan Country Song & California Classic by ABBA: His 1980 & 1984 Campaign Music
  October 11, 2012
• Nixon Then, Nixon Now, Connie Francis & His Changing Campaign Songs from 1960 to 1972
  October 4, 2012
• FDR’s Four-Times Happy Campaign Song & A Home Movie Showing Him Paralyzed
  October 1, 2012
• The Engineered Beat of Herbert Hoover’s 1928 Campaign Song
  September 28, 2012
• The First President Captured on Film: McKinley’s 1896 Campaign Song & Commercial
  September 14, 2012
• When Three Presidents Ran Against Each Other But Whiskey Won the Election: The 1912 Campaign Songs of Teddy Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson
  September 12, 2012
• Jimmy Carter’s Green “Country” Brand: His 1976 Campaign Song
  September 10, 2012
• The Last Original Campaign Song: Jerry Ford’s Bicentennial Tune
  August 16, 2012
• The Caricature-Building Comments of Ann Romney & Michelle Obama in Context
  July 23, 2012
• Washington & Monroe: No Love Lost Between the First & Last of the Virginia Dynasty
  July 17, 2012
• McKinley & Roosevelt: Teddy’s Crack Behind Mack’s Back, Egotism & Death
  July 13, 2012
• What Franklin Roosevelt & Harry Truman Thought of Each Other
  June 25, 2012
• The Munching President
  June 22, 2012
• Two Legitimate First-Generation Presidential Candidates For the First Time in History: Obama & Romney
  June 15, 2012
• Keeping Clean with the Presidents
  June 9, 2012
• The Dancing President
  May 30, 2012
• The first First Lady’s first Day
  May 27, 2012
• Coffee Break With the Presidents
  April 16, 2012
• The First Lady a Nation Never Knew: Pat Nixon in Private Taped Phone Calls & 100 Pictures on Her Centennial
  March 16, 2012
• Drinking & Smoking With the Presidents
  March 2, 2012
• George Washington’s Birthday: He Spent it Dancing
  February 17, 2012
• Presidential Princess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Her Little Thank You Note & A Rare Recording of Her Voice
  February 12, 2012
• Jerry & Betty Ford’s Desert House: Time to Preserve It
  February 9, 2012