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JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
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JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
2022 2022 American Best Book Award Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration and Its Legacy, Finalist, Best Cover Design: Nonfiction How...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along...
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...
The Cross Hall and large Entrance Hall are at the center of the original plan by James Hoban for the...
Clifton Truman Daniel is the oldest grandson of President Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess. He is the son...
James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended that the space now called the "Green Room" be used...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...