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Book Review Roundup

Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Abigail Adams, Book Reviews, Writing, On Thin Ice, Too Much Money, New Books, Generation A, The Value of Nothing, Literary Life, Books, Manhood, Books News

As it gets closer to Christmas, book review sites start looking back over the year, and reviewing fewer new books, but there are still some out there ...

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Name The Foxy First Lady: A Fun Quiz! (PHOTOS, POLL)

Lindsay Mannering | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Poll, Slideshow, Foxy First Lady Slideshow, Foxy First Ladies, Foxy First Lady Poll, Abigail Adams, Grace Coolidge, Ida Mckinley, Dolley Madison, Julia Tyler, Rosalynn Carter, Jackie Kennedy, Style News
Lindsay Mannering

Editor's note: This quiz was originally published on February 7th, 2009. We're running it again now because, well, it's awesome. First Ladies have al...

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Boo! Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln Rumored To Haunt The White House

Washington Post | Moira E. McLaughlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Style

Read More: White House Ghosts, White House, White House Haunted, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Abigail Adams, Style News

The White House wasn't finished when she moved in, so she used the still-under-construction East Room to dry her clean sheets. Her ghost is said to wa...

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Sex and Voting

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, 19th Amendment, Universal Suffrage, Women's Suffrage, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nineteenth Amendment, Slavery, Abigail Adams, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

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Remember Mama?

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abigail Adams, Commission on Women, Michelle Obama, Lani Guinier, Nancy Pelosi, John Adams, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jackie Speier, White-House-Council-on-Women-and-Girls, Culture of Care, 1977 National Women's Conference, Birth Control, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Birthrate, Politics, Business, Living, Politics News
Elizabeth Gregory

The stress and struggles women workers and their families undergo while trying to do their jobs are not only a national disgrace -- they're completely unnecessary.

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Hello Dolley! And Jackie and Mamie and Nancy....A Brief History of Showing 'Skin' In The White House

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 04.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Abigail Adams, Michelle Obama, Dolley Madison, Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbara Bush, Harriet Lane, Mamie Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, First Ladies, Nancy Reagan, Style News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

As a First Lady historian, there's something humorous in the current "debate" about whether showing skin is socially acceptable for First Ladies. It's been a topic of discussion since the start of the presidency.

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Tip #6 for Our 44th President: Listen to Your Mother-In-Law

Emily Main | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Saving, Barack Obama, Organic Gardens, First Ladies, Energy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Abigail Adams, Green Living, Laura Bush, 60 Minutes, Vegetables, Lou Hoover, Food, Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Gardening, Parents, Green News
Emily Main

In honor of these wise women, we've compiled a list of some of the nation's former First Ladies (and grandmothers and mothers-in-law) and their contributions to a better planet.

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