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FLARE Member of the Month ... Nancy Kegan Smith

Nancy Kegan Smith Ms. Smith worked for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as an archivist from 1973 until 2012 when she retired. She started her career as an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
FLARE Member of the Month ... Nancy Kegan Smith
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Call for Applications ... Inaugural Editor FLARE E-Journal

Call for Applications ... Inaugural Editor FLARE E-Journal

During 2023, the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) will appoint an inaugural editor to launch an e-journal that reflects the research and education mission of the organization. This is a unique opportunity to influence and shape a new journal in a field where nothing else like it exists. FLARE was launched in June 2021, and has members from a wide variety of disciplines and professions.

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40 years on, Betty Ford's impact on addiction and recovery is as strong as ever
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Our Mission
The mission of FLARE is to create and sustain a network to promote and publicize research and education relevant to the contributions, lives, impacts, and lasting legacies of U.S. First Ladies.
 
Our Vision
FLARE will be the primary association to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and outreach among scholars, institutions, First Ladies’ staff, biographers, archivists, journalists, and public historians interested in research and education about the lasting legacy of U.S. First Ladies.

 

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FLARE Focus on Mrs. Lincoln and Mental Health: A Short Apology

Haley Gray

Research reveals that First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was very different as a child from who she evolved into as an adult. Mrs. Lincoln, as noted by many childhood friends, was the embodiment of joy and spontaneity; she was described as "the very creature of excitement" by a young lawyer in 1840. Later tales of Mrs. Lincoln depict a woman who was struck by tragedy, emotionally hurt, and mentally destroyed by the time of her death in 1882. She had no ability to take her case to social media or to engage with mental health awareness organizations. Instead, her life devolved partly through lack of understanding by the medical community, the courts, the people around her, and public opinion. Today, seven score and one year later, Mrs. Lincoln is deserving of compassion, care, and an apology.

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Jane Appleton Pierce

March 12, 1806

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Abigail Powers Fillmore

March 13, 1798

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Patricia “Pat” Ryan Nixon

March 16, 1912

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Edwina and Tom Johnson (Atlanta)

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Christopher J. Leahy

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Anne F. Mattina

Lisa Hill McCubbin

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Barbara Perry

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Lindsay B. Reynolds

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