Articles about First Ladies

First Ladies' Role

• First Ladies and Politics
• Michelle Obama as First Lady
• Press Briefings and First Ladies
• The Role of First Lady and Origin of the Title "First Lady"
• Transitions: A brief history of tours of the White House given by the presiding First Lady to the First Lady-elect

First Ladies and Fashion

• Edith Wilson, Clothing and Public Appearances
• First Ladies and Style
• Inaugural Gowns
• Julia Tyler's Gold Pen Necklace

First Ladies and Family

• Saxton Family Papers

The White House

• The East Wing: A History of the Staff to First Ladies
• First Ladies and Political Conventions

Advocates of Social Causes

• First Ladies and Public Projects, Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower
• Mary Todd Lincoln and Slavery
• The Women's Christian Temperance Union and the two wives of Woodrow Wilson

Personal Interests

• First Ladies' Favorite Flowers
• First Ladies and Photography
• First Ladies with Regard to Publishing and/or Writing Books

First Ladies as Ambassadors

• First Ladies with International Interests
• Foreign Trips of Incumbent First Ladies
• Jacqueline Kennedy and Foreign Policy
• Laura Bush and Foreign Policy

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