Cassandra Good is a writer and historian focused on gender and politics in early America. She is the author of the prizewinning Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic and First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America. She has taught at Marymount University, George Washington University, and University of Mary Washington and has written for Smithsonian Magazine, Mental Floss, the Atlantic, and Slate.
