Here’s how to plan a trip to Greensboro, one of North Carolina’s most vibrant cities. To those outside the Carolinas, the city of Greensboro is almost under the radar. It’s not part of the Research ...

At James Madison’s Montpelier, the mission is to educate people about the roles those who lived there played in history. While James Madison is famous for being the father of the Constitution ...

While James Madison is famous for being the father of the Constitution, his wife, Dolley, earned her place in history for being a charming hostess and diplomat in her own right.

Dolley accepts a marriage proposal by James Madison, who had been engaged once before but never married. September 15, 1794 Dolley marries U.S. Representative James Madison at her sister’s home ...

Madison moved to Philadelphia as a teenager from North Carolina in 1783. The home where she lived with her first husband is now a historic site just a stone’s throw from Carpenters’ Hall.. She married ...

Though she is remembered as the wife of James Madison, the first lady had a first marriage to John Todd, a Philadelphia lawyer. The couple wed in 1790, only a few years after Madison, nee Payne ...

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., acquired the circa 1846 daguerreotype, which depicts Dolley Madison in her later years, at some point in her 70s.