Presidents' Day at the White House
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...
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Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
As the holidays approach, thoughts inevitably turn to sugar plums, gingerbread, and all of the other delectable treats that season...
The People's House: Although John Adams was the first to occupy the Executive Mansion in November 1800, it was Thomas Jefferson...
Today, Inauguration Day falls on an exact day and time—January 20 at noon. Every four years, either the president or th...
“Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.1 An...
The morning of Monday, March 5, 1877 was cold and overcast as Americans anticipated the Inauguration of Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes...
In August 1814, British forces occupying the Chesapeake Bay began to sail up the Patuxent River in Maryland. Fearing an attack...
Savior of American portraiture, server of ice cream, dual term first lady and mentor of White House hostesses: all of...
This number of White House History recalls the burning of the White House, which took place in 1814, two hundred years...
When the White House gates open at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 13th, thousands of people will stream through for the...