Scandal, Murder & Spies in the Wild, Hidden History of Washington, D.C.

Clover Hooper Adams, the spouse of famed author Henry Adams, is a charming and talented photographer and society matron. But a terrible family tragedy plagues her own life.

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Future President Andrew Jackson survives a pistol duel to the death with the country's best gunslinger through an astonishing and fearless strategy. 

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Intrepid First Lady Dolley Madison, with help with staff and servants, saves priceless items from the White House, just before the British burn the place down during the War of 1812. 

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Mrs. Lincoln's Sad Search for Her Deceased Son. At a time of Civil War that claimed the lives of 600,000 Americans--out of a population of just 30 million--First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln joined the popular custom of seances. Her aim: try to communicate with her son Willie, who passed away at a young age. 

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How Gen. Andrew Jackson recruited Creoles, "free men of color",  French pirates, backwoodsmen, and Indians to win an unlikely victory over the mighty British Empire at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. 

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After a big assist for religious liberty, President Jefferson gets a most unusual gift: the largest food item the White House ever received. As he spars with the scientists of Old Europe over which continent has the biggest, healthiest critters.

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Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square:

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In 1848, 77 slaves tried to escape to freedom aboard a schooner skippered by two white abolitionists. Their effort failed, but helped end the slave trade in the nation's capital and in the long run slavery itself.

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Andrew Jackson's first inauguration was not only the wildest, it nearly wrecked the White House, and forced the new President to spend his first night as Chief Executive in a hotel! "The reign of King Mob triumphant!"

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Lafayette was the key man, and a brilliant soldier, behind America's critical Revolutionary War alliance with France.  Yet his life in his home country during the French Revolution and after may have been even more wild, and included an incredible prison break with the help of famous U.S. friends. Further, a half century after the start of the American Revolution, as an elderly man he made an astonishing tour of the United States.  

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The astonishing story of Alethia Browning Tanner, enslaved grocer to the Presidents, whose family kicked off revolutions in education and civil rights. 

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