President Truman and Civil Rights
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
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Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Civil War Washington” website has posted the 1862 Eman...
E. Frederic Morrow was the first African American to serve in an executive position on a president’s staff at th...
January 29, 1979: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was the highest-ranking Chinese visitor to the White House since Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited in 1943....
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia “Lethe” Tanner purchased her freedom with $275 dollars she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
Before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building was built during 1922-25, a simple three-and-a-half story brick home stood in...