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Helen Louise "Nellie" Taft (née Herron; June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft. Born to a politically well-connected Ohio family, she took an early interest in political life, deciding at the age of 17 that she wished to become first lady.
Recollections of Full Years is a 1914 memoir by Helen Taft, a First Lady of the United States and wife of William Howard Taft. The memoirs were the first to be published by a first lady. The book serves as "the most important source of information" about Helen Taft. [1] [2]
The 2024 Harding Symposium July 19-20 will feature four descendants of former first ladies Helen "Nellie" Taft, Edith Wilson and Florence Harding. Descendants panel sharing stories about first ...
Title page of Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft. Fourteen first ladies of the United States have written a total of twenty-three memoirs. The first lady is the hostess of the White House, and the position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, with some historical exceptions. Every memoir by a first ...
Middletown: A Study in American Culture was primarily a look at changes in the white population of a typical American city between 1890 and 1925, a period of great economic change. The Lynds used the "approach of the cultural anthropologist " (see field research and social anthropology ), existing documents, statistics, old newspapers ...
For the first time in inauguration history, the incoming First Lady (in this case Helen Herron Taft) joined her husband in leading the parade from the Capitol to the White House. Probably during the parade, the choral march "Our Country" by Arthur Whiting was played. [3] An inaugural ball that evening was held at the Pension Building.
From bold-colored scarves to the zoot suit in Harlem to the mass popularity of bold acrylic nails, Black culture in […]
This was complicated by the attempts of Taft's wife, Helen Herron Taft, to exert her own influence on the White House. [158] Edith and Helen had developed a rivalry over the years, both distrusting each other and the other's husband. [159] This contributed to a similar animosity between Theodore and William in the following years. [160]