Rediscovering Martha Washington with Karin Wulf

Martha Washington famously burned most of her correspondence with her husband George. Very few of her letters survive to this day. So how do we know what we know about Martha's life?

Brown University historian Dr. Karin Wulf talks with Jim Ambuske, Director of Digital History at In Pursuit, about what it took to reconstruct the life of the nation's first First Lady.

The conversation explores Martha's origins as a plantation mistress, the challenge of creating an office before women could hold one, and how historians build on the labors of the past to tell new stories in the present.