When Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital in 1801, one of his first acts was to abolish any formal receptions, except on New Year's Day and the Fourth o
When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of American politicians was summoned to the Potomac to assemble the nation's newly minted capital. Into that unsteady atmospher
Leading the elite and middle-class white women of Washington City during the early 19th century from the shadow of their Great Men, Allgor (history, U. of California-Riverside) shows them as political
First Lady of the United States and America's “Queen of Hearts,” Dolley Madison fashioned an unofficial role for herself in the new administration of the United States, helping to answer the nation's
