Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

Center for Presidential History Lecture,

By Amy Greenberg, Penn State University:

While the Woman’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. Registration required: https://blog.smu.edu/cph/event/sarah-polk/