Since the days of Martha Washington, the role of the First Lady has been an evolving symbol of influence, style, and advocacy in American history. While the Office of the First Lady was only formally ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

a family friend of the Jeffersons who was raised by Thomas Jefferson’s own parents. The publication of Hemings’ uncredited recipes in Randolph’s book (as well as other recipes that may have ...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph, by Randolph’s brother-in-law, the alcoholic Charles Bankhead. No one, to my knowledge, has noticed Jefferson’s characteristic refusal to acknowledge the emotional ...

The once and future first lady plans her return to the White House amid questions of how much time she'll actually spend there.

A look into news from the metro area’s nonprofits and good works and philanthropic outreach from local businesses.

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Among them were Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph, Andrew Jackson’s daughter-in-law Sarah Yorke Jackson, and his wife’s niece Emily Donelson, and Chester A. Arthur’s sister Mary ...