History
The most politically minded First Lady so far, find out more about how Sarah Polk enhanced her husband's political career in the latest episode. Bibliography:https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/sarah-childress-polk/https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/james-k-polk/American National Biography DatabaseSarah Agnes, Wallace, Sarah Polk, John W. Childress, ‘Letters of Mrs. James K. Polk to Her Husband,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No.3, September 1952 pp. 282-288 https://millercenter.org/president/polk/essays/polk-1845-firstladyPaul H. Bergeron, ‘All in the Family: President Polk in the White House,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, (spring 1987) p. 10-20 Jayne Crumpler DeFiore, ‘COME, and Bring the Ladies: Tennessee Women and the Politics of Opportunity during the presidential Campaigns of 1840 and 1844,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 4, (Winter, 1992) pp. 197-212Conover Hunt, ‘Fashion and Frugality, First Lady Sarah Polk,’ Journal of the White House Historical Association Number 32https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-enslaved-households-of-james-k-polkhttps://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-red-room-in-the-polk-white-househttps://jameskpolk.com/history/Jewel A. Smith, ‘Academic and Music Curricula in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Education: A Comparison of the Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary and Nazareth Hall,’ Music Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 2, (Summer 2007) pp. 275-306