Washington, Martha
Born June 2, 1732 (New Kent County, Virginia)
Died May 22, 1802 (Mount Vernon, Virginia)
First lady
The lives of prominent eighteenth-century women were rarely recorded in any detai...
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Linda Leyendecker Gutierrez lives and works a few blocks from the Rio Grande and traces her lineage in two branches _ from one of this Spanish colonial city's oldest families and to Revolutionary W...
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First Lady Laura Bush paid tribute Monday to "one of America's most beloved first ladies" — Dolley Madison — at the unveiling of a coin in Madison's honor."America's first ladies have g...
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A haunting portrait of a slave girl painted by the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee at her family's Virginia plantation in 1830 is being sold to Colonial Williamsburg for its museum collection, a New Yor...
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Not so long ago, what happened behind closed doors in the White House was nobody’s business. Some of the most celebrated presidents in U.S. history—Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Dela...
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Washington, Martha
Laredo Washington birthday mixes culture
