WASHINGTON – Whatever Michelle Obama chooses to wear to the inaugural balls should soon have a special place for display – right next to a dress worn by Martha Washington in the 1780s that ...

WASHINGTON — Whatever Michelle Obama chooses to wear to the inaugural balls could soon have a special place for display — right next to a dress worn by Martha Washington in the 1780s that ...

Some dresses are on display for the first time in years, including an evening gown worn by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961 for her first state dinner, for Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Whatever Michelle Obama chooses to wear to the inaugural balls could soon have a special place for display - right next to a dress worn by Martha Washington in the 1780s that ...

Whatever Michelle Obama chooses to wear to the inaugural balls could soon have a special place for display — right next to a dress worn by Martha Washington in the 1780s that featured painted ...

The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations ...

Judges wore full-bottomed wigs until the 1780s, when the less formal, ... The judicial robes and barristers' gowns date back even further, to the time of King Edward III (1327-77).

This year’s Decades Ball for Lapham’s Quarterly, the literary magazine founded by Lewis Lapham in 2007, celebrated the 1780s, when Kant was writing and Mozart was composing.