In this episode, discover how "Queen Dolley" reshaped the existing social norms in Washington DC, renovated the White House, and became a symbol of national unity.

Shownotes:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/dolley-payne-todd-madison/
American Nation Biography Database
Merry Ellen Scofield, ‘Yea or Nay to Removing the Seat of Government: Dolley Madison and the Realities of 1814 Politics,’ The Historian, Vol. 74. No. 3, (Fall 2012) pp. 449-466
John Todd Jr, Dolley P. Todd, J. Madison Jr. and Paul G. Sifton, ‘What a Dread Prospect…”: Dolley Madison’s Plague Year,’ The Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 87, No. 2, (April 1963) pp. 182-188
Holly C. Schulman, ‘Madison V. Madison: Dolley Payne Madison and her Inheritance of the Montpelier Estate, 1836- 1838, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 119, No. 4, (2011) pp. 350-398
Allen C. Clark, Life and Letters of Dolly Madison, (Press of W. F. Roberts Company Washington D.C. 1914)
 https://www.montpelier.org/learn/tag/dolley-madisonhttps://www.montpelier.org/learn/dolley-madison-becoming-americas-first-lady
Catherine Allgor chapter ‘Dolley Madison A Case Study in Southern Style,’ pp. 201-221 in Cynthia A. Kierner, Sandra Gioia Treadway Virginia Women, Their Lives and Times, University of Georgia press, (2015)
Catherine Allgor, “Queen Dolley” Saves Washington City’ Washington History, Vol. 12, No. 1, (spring summer 2000) p. 54-69
Robert P. Watson, ‘The “White Glove Pulpit”: A History of Policy Influence by First Ladies,’ OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 15, No. 3, First Ladies (Spring 2001) pp. 9-14
Catherine Allgor, “Believeing the Ladies had Great Influence”: Early National American Women’s Patronage in Transatlantic Context,’ American Political Thought, Vol. 4, No. 1, (Winter 2015) pp. 39-71
Cynthia D. Earman, ‘Remembering the Ladies: Women, Etiquette, and Diversions in Washington City, 1800-1814,’ Washington History, Vol. 12, No. 1, (Spring/Summer 2000) pp. 102-117
http://www.montpelier.org
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/dolley-madison