She was California’s first First Lady, the “Queen of California ... primitive outpost in the 1780s. Reeling from culture shock, loneliness, boredom and 20 months of pregnancy (two full ...

In the 1780s, many poor Londoners were confined to ... to be shipped off to the failing Sydney Cove colony aboard the Lady Juliana. For the English government, the female convicts were to serve ...

Hemings was with Jefferson from the late 1780s until his death in 1826 ... Wayles Skelton Jefferson as our country’s third first lady. But Martha died in 1782, nearly two decades before ...

And it wasn’t just Martha, or Lady Washington as she was called ... She wore it during the 1780s, a period I think of as the Washingtons’ second chance at a normal life.

Van Cleve patiently examines the specific matters of public policy that vexed national politics in the mid-1780s. He draws sharp conclusions and generally takes decided stands on matters that ...