Feather Schwartz Foster
Feather Schwartz Foster is an independent historian -lecturer, who focuses on the "old" First Ladies - Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower, to be specific. She teaches for the Christopher Wren Association, affiliated with the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and also at the Lifelong Learning Affiliate of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA.
She has written four books: "LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities," (historical fiction); "Garfield's Train", historical fiction, "T: An Auto-Biography," (children) and most recently, "The FIrst Ladies," (non-fiction).
She has lectured at the DeWitt Wallace Museum in Colonia Williamsburg, and has appeared on PBS Virginia Currents, and NPR radio programs across the country. She has alsomade more than two hundred appearances at historical societies, womens' organizations, libraries and other venues. She is a member of the Chesapeake Bay Writers group.
Latest Articles
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The Second Mrs. Harrison: Family Feud
Few Presidential marriages were as divisive as that of Benjamin Harrison and his second wife, Mary Lord Dimmick
May 16, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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Destiny of the Republic: A Book Review
Its subtitle, "A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President" says it all.
May 8, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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Chester Alan Arthur: President-in-Waiting
No Vice President, indeed no President, was more unlikely than Chester Alan Arthur.
May 1, 2012
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President Garfield's Doctors: A Keystone Tragi-Comedy Part II
Garfield would survive his assassination attempt for ten of the hottest weeks in memory.
Apr 21, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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President Garfield's Doctors: A Keystone Tragi-Comedy Part I
At Charles Guiteau's trial, the deranged assassin admitted that he had shot the President, but "it was the doctors who killed him."
Apr 12, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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Thomas Jefferson: The Palate of Enlightenment
Thomas Jefferson was always a slender man. He ate sparingly - but what he ate was always magnificently prepared from the finest ingredients available.
Apr 6, 2012
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The Inauguration of John Adams: American Validation
March 4, 1797 was a great day, but lonely day for the Second President.
Mar 27, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944): Unknown First Lady
When Mrs. Hoover became First Lady in 1929, she was a well-known and highly regarded activist in her own right.
Mar 17, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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Florence Harding: The Duchess and The Veterans
After World War I, thousands of wounded soldiers were crowding into Washington hospitals. Florence Harding would be a regular visitor.
Mar 3, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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The Mariners Museum: Home of the USS Monitor
The Virginia Peninsula - that jam-packed nifty region between Richmond and Virginia Beach - has one frequently overlooked attraction of huge significance.
Feb 23, 2012
- Feather Schwartz Foster
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