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 detail. Yet women played as vital a role as men in early...

This article is about the first First Lady of the United States. For the article about the comic book character, see Give Me Liberty. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first...

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 War orator Patrick Henry.And she says she has a God-given gift of...

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 guided, comforted and sustained our nation in times of trial and triumph," Mrs. Bush...

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 York dealer said.The Virginia foundation confirmed that it has the...

 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 Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy—enjoyed a little action on the side without having to worry about paparazzi hiding...