The dominance of white for a woman's wedding attire is a relatively modern phenomenon.
Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.
Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.