History
In the final episode of our early republic series, we have a change of scene at look to life on the frontier with Rachel Jackson and Emily Donelson before Andrew Jackson takes the White House.Shownotes:https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/rachel-donelson-jackson/American National Biography Database Harriet Chappell Owsley, ‘The Marriages of Rachel Donelson,’ Tennessee Historical Society, Vol. 36, No. 4, (Winter 1977) pp. 479-492 Stanley F. Horn ‘The Hermitage: Home of Andrew Jackson,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, (March 1961) p. 3-19 Robert P. Watson, ‘The First Lady Reconsidered: Presidential Partner and Political Institution,’ Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4, (Fall 1997) p. 805-818 Lewis L. Laska, “The Dam’st Situation Ever Man Was Placed In”: Andrew Jackson, David Allison, and the frontier Economy of 1795-96,’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4, (Winter 1995) p. 336-347 Jeff Smith, ‘Lords (and Ladies) of Misrule: Carnival, Scandal, and Satire in the Age of Andrew Jackson,’ Studies in American Humor, New Series 3, No 12, (2005) pp. 52-82 https://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/family/rachel/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/not-a-ragged-mob-the-inauguration-of-1829Pauline Wilcox Burke, Emily Donelson of Tennessee, Garrett and Massie, Richmond, VA, 1941https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/emily-donelsonhttps://millercenter.org/president/jackson/essays/jackson-1829-firstladyhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/andrew-jackson/https://millercenter.org/president/jackson/life-in-brief