A companion to first ladies / edited by Katherine A.S. Sibley.

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Further reading
Chapter 1. Martha Washington
Chapter 2. Abigail Adams
Chapter 3. Martha Jefferson Randolph, first daughter
Chapter 4. James and Dolley Madison and the quest for unity
Chapter 5. Elizabeth Monroe
Chapter 6. A monarch in a republic
Chapter 7. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson
Chapter 8. Angelica Singleton Van Buren, First Lady for a Widower
Chapter 9. The Ladies of Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too
Chapter 10. Sarah Polk
Chapter 11. Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce
Chapter 12. Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston
Chapter 13. Mary Todd Lincoln
Chapter 14. Eliza McCardle Johnson and Julia Dent Grant
Chapter 15. Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Mary Arthur McElroy
Chapter 16. Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee
Chapter 17. Ida McKinley
Chapter 18. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Chapter 19. Helen Herron Taft
Chapter 20. Ellen Axson Wilson
Chapter 21. Edith Wilson
Chapter 22. Florence Kling Harding
Chapter 23. Grace Coolidge
Chapter 24. The historiography of Lou Henry Hoover
Chapter 25. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Chapter 26. Eleanor Roosevelt
Chapter 27. Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Wallace Truman
Chapter 28. Overrated pleasures and underrated treasures
Chapter 29. Jacqueline Kennedy
Chapter 30. Lady Bird Johnson
Chapter 31. An unlikely first lady


Chapter 32. Betty Ford
Chapter 33. Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Chapter 34. Nancy Reagan
Chapter 35. Barbara Pierce Bush
Chapter 36. Barbara Pierce Bush
Chapter 37. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chapter 38. Laura Welch Bush
Chapter 39. First Lady Michelle Obama
Chapter 40. First Lady Michelle Obama.