You might have caught Michelle Obama on Youtube during one of her television appearances with Jimmy Fallon or Ellen DeGeneres. Or maybe you caught the web episode of the kids show iCarly when she made a guest appearance. Perhaps you… Read More ›
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Michelle Obama: Methodical & Accessible (Part 1)
It’s become something of an impossible problem, but it’s hardly the first time for a First Lady. Unveil your ambitious plan to get your husband’s new Administration to initiate the most sweeping national mental health care reform legislation in… Read More ›
The Disabled First Lady with the Napkin-Covered Face Myth
Only after he had died while he was President did the general public finally learn what most of the White House press corps knew, but had tacitly agreed not to disclose: while leading the nation through the Great Depression and… Read More ›
Jackie Kennedy’s Surprise Party for Nancy Tuckerman, Her Confidential Friend of a Lifetime
She has never been fully credited with the lifetime of devoted friendship and trust she provided for her friend, who happened to be the world’s most famous woman, but public acclaim was always the last thing which Nancy Tuckerman sought…. Read More ›
Honoring the First Lady of the World in Cartoons
There are some individuals who, no matter how long they are gone, are worth remembering. Over half a century has passed since she died, but the vision and the work of Eleanor Roosevelt still reverberates. Coming to the White House… Read More ›
First Photographed First Lady: A Girl Elopes with the President & Brands Her Image
First Lady Michelle Obama has taken to Twitter to keep herself before the American public, updating them on her activities. Jackie Kennedy went on television, conducting a black-and-white videotaped tour of the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt made herself a national… Read More ›
The Dogs of Jackie O: Thirty Pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions
From her earliest childhood days on Long Island, through her youth in New York, Newport, Rhode Island and McLean, Virginia, to her public period as the wife of a U.S. Senator in Washington and in the White House as First… Read More ›
A Short History of First Lady Hair’Dos & its Big Bang Theory
In the one week since First Lady Michelle Obama had her hair cut and styled with bangs, this apparently momentous shift of the planetary system has generated a level of grave and serious reporting rivaling predictions on how the imminent… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: The President’s Presents, Shopping, Giving & Getting Gifts, Part 1 of 4
No matter how much we may imagine them now as marbleized icons of history, even Presidents and First Ladies enjoy searching out the ideal gifts to give loved ones at the holiday season and sometime delight with an equal degree… Read More ›
Michelle Obama’s Slave Ancestry & Presidential Identity Politics
The recent news, emerging from the new book American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, by New York Times reporter Rachel L. Swarns, finally provides in a detailed history how the First Lady‘s… Read More ›
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