Plodding Through The Presidents

Plodding Through The Presidents


Andrew Jackson's Slut-Shaming Evolution

March 10, 2020

In our Season 1 finale, we trace Andrew Jackson's feelings about women's honor from his early days as a rowdy outhouse-mover to his tragic relationship with his wife Rachel and finally to the Petticoat Affair the scandal surrounding Margaret Eaton that nearly took down his entire administration.


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Sources:


The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House by John F. Marszalek
Life of Andrew Jackson by James Parton


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