Jane Pierce is remembered for her tragic personal life more than anything else during her tenure as First Lady: find out more in the latest episode of the podcast. 

Bibliography: 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/jane-means-appleton-pierce/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-pierce/
Pierre-Marie Loizeau, “First Lady But Second Fiddle” or the rise and rejection of the political couple in the White House: 1933-today,’ European Journal of American Studies, 10-1, 2015 
Millard fillmore, Abigail Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Jane M. Pierce, James Buchanan, H.Lane, and Mrs Lincoln, ‘Letters of Presidents of the United States and “Ladies of the White House”, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1902, Vol. 26, No. 1, (1902) pp. 115-125, University of Pennsylvania Press
American National Biography Database by Norman F. Boas 1999 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Pierce
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=15
https://millercenter.org/president/pierce/essays/pierce-1853-firstlady

What connects Abigail Fillmore with The Greatest Showman movie? You'll have to listen to the latest episode of FLOTUSpodcast to find out! 

Bibliography: 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/abigail-powers-fillmore/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/millard-fillmore/
https://millercenter.org/president/fillmore/essays/fillmore-1850-firstlady
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/millard-fillmores-musical-family
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abigail-Fillmore
American National Biography Database 

As we creep closer to the Civil War, the presidency of Zachary Taylor shows that the absence of a First Lady leaves room for gossip and speculation to run rife. 

Bibliography: 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/margaret-mackall-smith-taylor/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/zachary-taylor/
American National Biography Database
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-enslaved-households-of-president-zachary-taylor
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/decorating-the-white-house
Zachary Taylor National Cemetry
https://millercenter.org/president/taylor/essays/taylor-1849-firstlady
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Taylor
Pierre-Marie Loizeau, “First Lady But Second Fiddle” or the rise and rejection of the political couple in the White House: 1933-today,’ European Journal of American Studies, Vol. 10 No. 1 2015 pp. 1-11
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=13

The most politically minded First Lady so far, find out more about how Sarah Polk enhanced her husband's political career in the latest episode. 

Bibliography:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/sarah-childress-polk/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/james-k-polk/
American National Biography Database
Sarah Agnes, Wallace, Sarah Polk, John W. Childress, ‘Letters of Mrs. James K. Polk to Her Husband,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No.3, September 1952 pp. 282-288 
https://millercenter.org/president/polk/essays/polk-1845-firstlady
Paul H. Bergeron, ‘All in the Family: President Polk in the White House,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, (spring 1987) p. 10-20 
Jayne Crumpler DeFiore, ‘COME, and Bring the Ladies: Tennessee Women and the Politics of Opportunity during the presidential Campaigns of 1840 and 1844,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 4, (Winter, 1992) pp. 197-212
Conover Hunt, ‘Fashion and Frugality, First Lady Sarah Polk,’ Journal of the White House Historical Association Number 32
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-enslaved-households-of-james-k-polk
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-red-room-in-the-polk-white-house
https://jameskpolk.com/history/
Jewel A. Smith, ‘Academic and Music Curricula in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Education: A Comparison of the Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary and Nazareth Hall,’ Music Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 2, (Summer 2007) pp. 275-306 

An invalid, an actress and a socialite; this episode we take at look at how Letitia, Priscilla and Julia Tyler all forged the First Lady role during the administration of "His Accidency," John Tyler. 

Bibliography:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/letitia-christian-tyler/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/julia-gardiner-tyler/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-tyler/
American National Biography Database 
Evelyn L. Pugh, ‘Women and Slavery: Julia Gardiner Tyler and the Duchess of Sutherland,’ The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 88, No. 2, (April, 1980) pp. 186-202 
https://millercenter.org/president/tyler/essays/tyler-letitia-1841-firstlady
https://millercenter.org/president/tyler/essays/tyler-julia-1841-firstlady
Christopher J. Leahy, ‘Playing Her Greatest Role: priscilla Cooper Tyler and the Politics of the White House Social Scene, 1841-44,’ The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 120, No. 3, (2012) pp. 236-69 

Tune in for a round up of Season 1 and a trailer of Season 2 

In the final episode of our early republic series, we have a change of scene at look to life on the frontier with Rachel Jackson and Emily Donelson before Andrew Jackson takes the White House.

Shownotes:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/rachel-donelson-jackson/
American National Biography Database 
Harriet Chappell Owsley, ‘The Marriages of Rachel Donelson,’ Tennessee Historical Society, Vol. 36, No. 4, (Winter 1977) pp. 479-492 
Stanley F. Horn ‘The Hermitage: Home of Andrew Jackson,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, (March 1961) p. 3-19 
Robert P. Watson, ‘The First Lady Reconsidered: Presidential Partner and Political Institution,’  Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4, (Fall 1997) p. 805-818 
Lewis L. Laska, “The Dam’st Situation Ever Man Was Placed In”: Andrew Jackson, David Allison, and the frontier Economy of 1795-96,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4, (Winter 1995) p. 336-347 
Jeff Smith, ‘Lords (and Ladies) of Misrule: Carnival, Scandal, and Satire in the Age of Andrew Jackson,’ Studies in American Humor, New Series 3, No 12, (2005) pp. 52-82 
https://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/family/rachel/
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/not-a-ragged-mob-the-inauguration-of-1829
Pauline Wilcox Burke, Emily Donelson of Tennessee, Garrett and Massie, Richmond, VA, 1941
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/emily-donelson
https://millercenter.org/president/jackson/essays/jackson-1829-firstlady
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/andrew-jackson/
https://millercenter.org/president/jackson/life-in-brief