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| American National Biography | Carnes, Mark C., and John A. Garraty, eds. | 1999 | New York: Oxford University Press | The American National Biography was originally published in 24 volumes. It is updated semi-annually. The print edition contains biographies of Americans who died before 1955. The on-line, subscription version, contains those who died after 1955. |
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| America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 2000 | New York: Touchstone | |
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| America’s First Ladies: Ohio Library was Established in 1997 in Their Honor | Wadley, Carma | 2007 | Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) 19 February 2007 | Article celebrates the tenth anniversary of the National First Ladies Library and includes a quiz on the subject of First Ladies.
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| Arabella Mason Rudolph, Her Ancestry, Life and Character | Hinsdale, B.A. | 1879 | Cleveland: J.B. Savage | Story of Mrs. Garfield’s mother. |
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| A Biography of James A. Garfield | Lossing, Benson John | 1882 | New York: H.S. Goodspeed & Company | |
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| The Garfield Orbit: The Life of President James A. Garfield | Leech, Margaret and Harry J. Brown | 1978 | New York: Harper and Row | |
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| Celebrating Women: History, Biographies, and Museums | Byerly, Greg, and Carolyn Brodie | 2005 | Library Media Activities Monthly April 2005 | Reviews of websites containing information about the First Ladies, including the National First Ladies Library. |
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| Children In the White House | Sadler, Christine | 1967 | New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons | |
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| Congress Clears Dollar Coin Bill | Higa, Liriel | 2005 | CQ Weekly 26 December 2005 | House of Representatives passes bill which would allow the Treasury to mint $10 coins with images of First Ladies. |
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| Crete and James: Personal Letters of Lucretia and James Garfield | Shaw, John, ed. | 1994 | Lansing: Michigan State University Press | This work, although not strictly a biography of Lucretia Garfield, is the most complete account of her life, as told through her correspondence with her husband. |
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| Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House | Young, Dwight, and Margaret Johnson, eds. | 2008 | Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society | Reproductions of letters from the Library of Congress and the National Archives to and from First Ladies, with annotations explaining the nature of the correspondence and the historical contexts within which each epistle was written.
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| Dictionary of American Biography | | 1980 | New York: Scribner | The venerable Dictionary of American Biography was first published in twenty volumes between 1927 and 1936. Ten subsequent volumes were published, and the most recent, edited by historian Kenneth Jackson and published by Scribner, includes Americans who died before the year 1980. The First Ladies are included. |
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| Dinner at the White House: President Entertains Duke of the Abruzzi and Other Foreign Visitors | | 1907 | New York Times 12 May 1907 | Mrs. Garfield was present at the dinner. |
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| The First Ladies | Klapthor, Margaret Brown | 1989 | Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association | |
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| The First Ladies | Barzman, Sol | 1970 | New York: Cowles | |
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| First Ladies | Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider | 2010 | New York: Facts On File | Updated edition. |
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| First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Barbara Bush | DeCesare, Linda | 1990 | New York: Random House | |
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| First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama | Caroli, Betty Boyd | 2009 | New York: Oxford University Press | Updated, fourth edition of Caroli's classic analysis of the successes, failings, and personalities of the 41 women who served as first ladies. The book will be released in paperback in 2010. |
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| First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents’ Wives and Their Power, 1789-1961, Vol. 1 | Anthony, Carl Sferrazza | 1990 | New York: Morrow | |
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| First Ladies: Women Who Called the White House Home | Gormley, Beatrice | 1997 | New York: Scholastic | |
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| First Ladies: A Profile of America's First Ladies; Michelle Obama to Martha Washington | Vander Pol, Stacie, ed. | 2009 | Seattle, WA: Pacific Publishing Studio | Profiles of each First Lady; themes include sacrifices made and benefits gained. |
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| First Ladies and the Press: Looking Ahead | Beasley, Maurine H. | 2006 | Media Report to Women Winter 2006 | Details how First Ladies have been represented by the media. |
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| A First Ladies’ Man | Hallett, Vicky | 2005 | U. S. News and World Report 1 August 2005 | Interview with Cormac O’Brien, author of The Secret Lives of the First Ladies. |
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| First Ladies of the White House | Brooks, Gertrude Zeth | 1969 | Chicago: Chas. Hallberg | Brief biographies accompany the official portraits or photographs of each first lady, except Margaret Taylor, for whom one does not exist. Also reproduced are official portraits of the presidents and photographs of one dress worn by each of the first ladies.
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| The First Lady: A Site of 'American Womanhood' in _Inventing a Voice_ | Anderson, Karrin Vasby | 2004 | | Vasby's essay can be found in Inventing a Voice: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century, ed. Molly Meijer Wertheimer (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). |
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| From Lady Washington to Mrs. Cleveland | Gordon, Lydia L. | 1889 | Boston: Lee and Shepherd | |
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| From Log Cabin to Oblivion | | 1976 | American History Illustrated 1 May 1976 | |
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| Garfield | Peskin, Allan | 1978 | Kent, OH: Kent State University Press | |
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| A Gift from Mrs. Garfield | | 1884 | New York Times 15 March 1884 | |
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| How to Be First Lady | Hofstadter, Beatrice K. | 1983 | American Heritage Magazine September 1983 | |
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