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Rosie Cain

Rosie Cain joined the Association in 2021 as the Timothy and Anita McBride Term Fellow in White House History. Rosie is a second-year Public History master’s student at American University, and she received her bachelor’s degree in History from University of Colorado, Boulder in 2019. Rosie is passionate about women’s and gender history and twentieth-century U.S. history.

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    White House Hostesses: The Forgotten First Ladies

    First ladies hold a unique place in American history. The collection of first ladies' gowns and artifacts remains one of the most popular exhibitions, visited by millions of annual visitors at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C..1 First ladies are the focus of documentaries, podcasts, books, and scholarly works that examine their lives and contributions

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    Women's Groups and First Ladies' Portraits

    Portraits have long served the purpose of connecting contemporary audiences to people of the past. Portraits not only depict the appearance of their subjects and the fashions of the time, but they provide insights about the artists and those who commissioned them. At the end of the nineteenth century, several women’s groups engaged in all steps of the process of