The role of US first lady has changed considerably since the 18th century, from homemaker to policy advocate.
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With wealth, charm and tactful leadership, John F. Kennedy set the standard for working toward the common good and decency in public discourse
The new TV series, Feud: Capote vs the Swans tells the story behind Answered Prayers, the never-finished gossip novel that made its author a social pariah. But what was in the book – and was it any good?
Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
The event shocked the world. But it also sparked the minds of filmmakers, authors, artists and conspiracy theorists.
Gothic storytelling, with its sinister atmosphere of conspiracy and other hallmarks, offers a way to reframe the Kennedy family lore.
On Presidents Day, a women in politics scholar examines the meaning, and sometimes outsized focus, on first ladies’ fashion choices.
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Associate Professor of American History, University of East Anglia
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