Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection
"The dramatic story--from adulterous beginning to tragic end--of the passionate relationship between Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel"--
Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. Frank, Robin Jaffee. Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History: Arts and enterinment in Louisiana
Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay.
Compiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers. 69 ...
Martha Custis was an attractive, wealthy widow and the mother of two young children when she agreed to marry again in 1759 and begin a new life as Martha Washington....