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The Nixon Family’s White House Halloween Parties of the Seventies: Pumpkin Pictures
In the post-World War II era of consumerism that marked the 1950s, American children began heading out to trick-or-treat on Halloween by the hundreds of thousands, redefining ancient Celtic rituals marking All Hallow’s Eve that were first brought to the… Read More ›
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Betty Ford’s Centennial: A Vibrant Life in Videos & Hundreds of Pictures
My work as an historian, researcher and author of books on the American First Ladies and the political power and cultural influence they possess overlapped a timeline during which nine women who held that unofficial position were alive and helped… Read More ›
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Five Forgotten Feminist First Ladies
Throughout March, many forgotten and overlooked women have been been credited with the bravery, strength, foresight, fairness and honesty they displayed and exemplified in their lifetimes, however belatedly, and who now offer the legacy of example. As happens with all… Read More ›
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Presidential, First Lady, White House Memorabilia Auction Sale Now On
The auction of my presidential memorabilia collection on Everything But the House has begun. Nearly 200 lots, almost all with multiple items of Presidents, First Ladies, First Families representing those from George and Martha Washington to Barack and Michelle Obama,… Read More ›
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Presidents, First Ladies & February’s Princess: Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s Century of Chief Executive Friends
This time of year was always one of milestones for the woman dubbed by the press as the nation’s first “Princess,” Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt, the wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth,… Read More ›
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Cat & Bird: When Actress Eartha Kitt Challenged First Lady Johnson on the Vietnam War
The year 1968 was one of the most tumultuous experienced among the American people; enormous social change was underway. Protests, pickets and riots that year marked the start of what emerged as the national Black Power Movement and the Women’s… Read More ›
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