Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

You are cordially invited to an intimate discussion about the life of a woman who's upbringing with simple and austere,

yet she grew up to live a life-high society, the White House, and whose name still lives on,

it's a gold standard of posting.

Right on day, seriously.

The end.

Let's talk about Dolly Madison.

She was born in 1768.

So let's just place her in history.

In that year, the first mustard manufactured in America is marketed in Philadelphia.

The first bachelor's degree in the New World of Medicine is issued to a doctor, John Archer.

That year, the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published in Scotland.

And on May 20th, Dolly Payne Todd Madison was born to Mary and John Payne in New Garden, North Carolina.

Let's talk about Dolly Madison.

Yes, let's.

She was the third of eight children, four boys and four girls who's raised in a Quaker family in Virginia,

and then the family moved to Philadelphia.

The thing is, her dad, who, they were, she was raised to Quaker.

And they, um, they don't believe in war and they don't believe in slavery.

Ironically, he went to fight in the Revolutionary War, and he had a lot of slaves.

So he, so we can't judge.

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