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Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.

Before they married in July 1797, Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams conducted a stormy correspondence that previewed their fifty-year marriage. The exceptional strengths they shared—wit, ambition, courage in adversity—would sustain them through devastating family tragedies but could not ease their path through a painful courtship.

\"National parks reflect the stories of woman who were pioneers, innovators, and leaders; and we take our responsibility to preserve and share these stories with visitors today and future generations very seriously,\" said National Park Service Acting Director Michael T. Reynolds, \"We are also incredibly proud of the women within the National Park Service who continue that proud tradition of pioneering, innovating and leading our organization, making it a stronger and more inclusive institution.\" HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK IN MARYLAND Born into slavery in 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped and forged her own destiny as an abolitionist, Civil War spy, suffragist, and humanitarian. MAGGIE L. WALKER NATIONAL HISTORICAL SITE IN VIRGINIA Born in the Confederate capital during the last year of the Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker achieved national prominence as a businesswoman and community leader. Campbell moved to the Twentynine Palms area of California in the early 1920s to improve husband's poor health, which was the result of exposure to mustard gas while serving in World War I. Fascinated by the numerous arrowheads she was finding and recognizing the threats to archaeological sites from ongoing development, she began to document the sites and...