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Dolley Madison: Creates the role of First Lady.

The Adams Curse: John Quincy Adams's fragile wife, Louisa Adams, vs. his domineering mother, Abigail Adams.

Washington Irving's Southern Tale: The author spins a fantastic but true story of incest and miscegenation in a leading Virginia family.

Da Ponte in America: Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte tries to put his bad-boy days behind him and become a respectable US citizen.

Edwin Forrest: The actor's rivalry with William Macready leads to the riot in 1849 at Astor Place, NYC, in which 22 die.

Sam Houston: The hero of Texas' independence and the state's first govenor refuses to join the Confederacy.

Fanny Kemble: An English actress marries a US slave holder and rebels at his treatment of the plantation's slaves.

John C. Fremont and the flag: The disasterous winter journey of 1848 to try and find a railroad route across the mountains of southern Colorado.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Hiding from Satan. The author finds he is not suited to commune life at Brook Farm.

Horace Greeley: The famous and famously eccentric editor of The New York Tribune rides high until he runs for President.

Hetty Greene: The Witch of Wall Street, the richest woman in America, still wears hand-me-down clothes.

William Seward: Lincoln's Secretary of State tries to help him deal with "the Negro question."

The Booth Curse: The rivalry between John Wilkes Booth and his brother, Edwin, leads to the tragedy at Ford's Theater

Julia Ward Howe: Should the famous poet and suffragist, the symbol of respectability, reveal the truth of her home life?

Kosmos: Walt Whitman, before, during, and after the Civil War, an autobiographical arrangement of his writings.