In this episode we explore the life of Louisa Catherine Adams, the first non-native First Lady who spent much time at the court of Tsar Alexander I before ascending to the White House.

Shownotes: 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-ladies/louisa-catherine-johnson-adams/
American National Biography Database 
Joan R. Challinor, ‘The Mis-Education of Louisa Catherine Johnson,’ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 98 (1986)p. 21-48 
L. H. Butterfield, ‘Taming a Drangon-Killer: Notes for the Biographer of Mrs. John Quincy Adams,’ Proceeding of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 118, No.2 (April 19 1974) pp. 165-178
Catherine Allgor, “A Republican in a Monarchy”: Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia,’ Diplomatic History, Vol. 21, No 1, (Winter, 1997) pp. 15-43 
Margery M. Heffron, “A Fine Romance”: The Courtship Correspondence between Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams,’ The New England Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 2, (June 2010) pp. 200-218 
https://www.masshist.org/adams/louisa_catherine_adams
 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-enslaved-household-of-john-quincy-adams