After years of deterioration and dwindling attendance and revenue, volunteers and the City of Fort Madison worked on several ...

Dolley Madison’s heroic role in saving George Washington’s portrait is uncovered, mixing history, bravery, and flair.

A few snowflakes wouldn’t have kept First Lady Dolley Madison from hosting a tea party and the same can be said for Dr. B. Marie Brady-Whitcanack, owner of the Victoria Gallery Tea Room. The Dolley ...

Dolley Madison, the fashionable wife of President James Madison, was the hostess with the mostess in Washington from 1809 to 1817. She threw the best parties in town, hands down. So, what would she ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery has purchased what is believed to be the earliest ever photo of a US First Lady and is of First Lady Dolley Madison, the wife ...

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“I have ordered the frame to be broken, and the canvass taken out.” — Dolley Madison, letter to her sister, Aug. 23, 1814 “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments ...

“I have ordered the frame to be broken, and the canvass taken out.” — Dolley Madison, letter to her sister, Aug. 23, 1814 “The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments ...