Philip Reed
Often, the accomplishments and contributions of enslaved people are lost to history—undocumented, ignored, or forgotten by successive generations. One of...
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Often, the accomplishments and contributions of enslaved people are lost to history—undocumented, ignored, or forgotten by successive generations. One of...
Although Michelle Obama was the first African-American first lady of the United States, African Americans have been integrally involved in...
Charles Willson Peale is synonymous with eighteenth-century portraiture. His depictions of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and other famous...
The New Years’ Day reception became a White House tradition with President John Adams in 1801 and ended with President Herbert Ho...
Without photographs, paintings, or other visual representations of the Decatur House Slave Quarters from the antebellum period, it is difficult...
Paul Jennings was born in 1799 at Montpelier, the Virginia estate of James and Dolley Madison. His mother, an enslaved woman...
Elias Polk was born into slavery in 1806 on a farm owned by Samuel Polk, father of the future president of...
At the corner of H Street and Connecticut Avenue, the United States Chamber of Commerce Building sits where a three-and-a-half...
Through research and analysis of written accounts, letters, newspapers, memoirs, census records, architecture, and oral histories, historians, museum professionals, and...
President William Henry Harrison’s famously brief month-long tenure at the White House makes it difficult to research the inner wo...
Upon stepping into the White House China Room, visitors encounter tableware from nearly every presidential administration or first family. Tucked...
On May 2, 1812, Captain Paul Cuffe arrived at the White House for a meeting with President James Madison.1 The internationally renowned...