1. Dolley Payne Todd Madison - American Icon – (1768 - 1849)
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... occasional White House hostess under the Jefferson administration, later as First Lady in her own right, then as presidential widow and Washington society icon spanned some eight decades during a very ...

2. Defeat Without Surrender: The Public Image of Jefferson Davis and the Reunification of America.
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... or defeated, most Americans were traumatized by the war, and Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) was a convenient target for blame. As its President, Davis was the embodiment of the Confederacy to many people ...

3. What is a Ranter?
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"Till you can lie with all women as one woman, and not judge it sin, you can do nothing but sin” (Hill.)   "The Ranters" was a term coined during the English Civil War to describe a counter-culture ...