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New York New York University Press, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-4798-8653-1}}. * {{cite book |last=Anthony |first=Carl Sferrazza |title=First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents Wives and Their Power 1789β1961 |url=https://archive.org/details/firstladiessaga200anth |url-access=registration |year=1992 |location=New York |publisher=Quill/William Morrow |isbn=978-0-688-11272-1 }} [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688112722 excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220428/https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688112722 |date=January 14, 2021 }} * {{cite journal |last=Bailey |first=Tim |title=America's First Ladies on Twentieth-Century Issues: A Common Core Unit |journal=History Now |volume=35 |date=Spring 2013 |url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/womens-history/resources/america%E2%80%99s-first-ladies-twentieth-century-issues-common-core }}{{Deadlink|date=December 2021 }} Curriculum unit based on primary sources. * {{cite journal |editor-last=Berkin |editor-first=Carol |title=America's First Ladies |journal=History Now |volume=35 |date=Spring 2013 |url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/2013-03/america%E2%80%99s-first-ladies |access-date=March 22, 2013 |archive-date=March 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318193544/https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/2013-03/america%E2%80%99s-first-ladies |url-status=dead }} Popular essays by scholars. * {{cite book |last=BΓΆck |first=Magdalena |title=The Role of First Ladies: A Comparison Between the US and Europe |year=2009 |location=Munich |publisher=GRIN Verlag |edition=eBook |isbn=978-3-640-42153-4}} * {{cite book |last=Brower |first=Kate Andersen |year=2016 |title=First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies |location=New York |publisher=Harper |isbn=978-0-06-243965-9}} * [[Betty Boyd Caroli|Caroli, Betty Boyd]]. "The Role of First Lady" in Graff, Henry F., ed. ''The presidents: A Reference History'' (3rd ed. 2002) * {{cite book |last = Deppisch |first = Ludwig M. |title = The Health of the First Ladies: Medical Histories from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama |publisher = McFarland |year= 2015}} * Gould, Lewis L. "First Lady as Catalyst: Lady Bird Johnson and Highway Beautification in the 1960s". Environmental Review 10.2 (1986): 77β92. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3984559 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920195209/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3984559 |date=September 20, 2022 }} * Gould, Lewis L. ''Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment'' (UP Kansas, 1988) [https://0-www-jstor-org.avalon.searchmobius.org/stable/j.ctv1p2gjzg online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927141838/https://avalon.searchmobius.org/wamvalidate?url=https%3A%2F%2F0-www-jstor-org.avalon.searchmobius.org%3A443%2Fstable%2Fj.ctv1p2gjzg |date=September 27, 2022 }} * Gould, Lewis L. ''Helen Taft: Our Musical First Lady'' (UP Kansas, 2010). * Gould, Lewis L. ''Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady'' (2012) [https://0-www-jstor-org.avalon.searchmobius.org/stable/j.ctt1bkm6zj online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927141838/https://avalon.searchmobius.org/wamvalidate?url=https%3A%2F%2F0-www-jstor-org.avalon.searchmobius.org%3A443%2Fstable%2Fj.ctt1bkm6zj |date=September 27, 2022 }} * Hummer, Jill Abraham. ''First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home'' (UP of Kansas, 2017); 269 pages; * {{cite journal |last1=Lugo-Lugo |first1=Carmen R. |first2=Mary K. |last2=Bloodsworth-Lugo |name-list-style=amp |title=Bare Biceps and American (In) Security: Post-9/11 Constructions of Safe(ty), Threat, and the First Black First Lady |journal=Women's Studies Quarterly |year=2011 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=200β217 |doi=10.1353/wsq.2011.0030|s2cid=85344609 }} On media images of Michelle Obama. * {{cite book |last=Pastan |first=Amy |title=First Ladies |year=2008 |location=London |publisher=DK |isbn=978-0-7894-7398-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/everest0000step }} Heavily illustrated. * {{cite book |last=Roberts |first=John B. |title=Rating The First Ladies: The Women Who Influenced the Presidency |edition=2nd |year=2004 |location=New York |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=978-0-8065-2608-9}} [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0806526084 excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220411/https://www.amazon.com/dp/0806526084 |date=January 14, 2021 }} * Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. ''Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves'' (U of Chicago Press, 2017), 420 pp. * {{cite book |last=Troy |first=Gil |title=Affairs of State The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II |url=https://archive.org/details/affairsofstate00gilt |url-access=registration |year=1997 |publisher=Free Press |isbn=9780684828206 }} By a leading political historian. * {{cite book |last=Truman |first=Margaret |title=First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives |year=1996 |location=New York |publisher=Facett Columbine |isbn=978-0-449-22323-9}} [https://www.amazon.com/dp/044922323X excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220522/https://www.amazon.com/dp/044922323X |date=January 14, 2021 }} * {{cite journal |last=Watson |first=Robert P. |title=Toward the Study of the First Lady: The State of Scholarship |journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly |year=2003 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=423β441 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-5705.2003.tb00038.x}} {{Refend}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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