Plodding Through The Presidents
Join history blogger Howard Dorre and his wife Jessica Dorre for a deep irreverent dive into lesser-known stories of the early American presidents. They dig into the myths, mysteries, scandals, and drama of the founders and their families, with a dash of marital banter.
First, we talk about how a day of fasting and prayer in 1798 turned into a night of fear and flying “cockades.” Then we’re joined by presidential historian Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, author of the new book Making The Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged The Republic, for an insightful conversation about how President John Adams was a much savvier politician than he gets credit for—especially considering he was surrounded by saboteurs and jerkfaces.
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We explore the final years and legacy of Lyncoya, the Native American child raised at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, focusing on Jackson’s attempt to get Lyncoya into West Point Military Academy and the way Lyncoya has been memorialized in Calhoun County, Alabama.
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Key sources for this episode include The Andrew Jackson Papers published by the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Dawn Peterson’s “Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion,” Christina Snyder’s essay “Andrew Jackson’s Indian Son” from the book “The Native South” edited by Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien, and Melissa Gismondi’s dissertation “Rachel Jackson and the Search for Zion, 1760s-1830s”
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