By Elyse Werling
In this article, Elyse Werling illustrates a timeline of White House ceremonies and receptions from the James Madison administration to the Barack Obama administration.
by Bethanee Bemis
In this article, Bethanee Bemis examines how traditions for releasing wedding details to the public have evolved. Included are wedding cake recipes released to the press for the weddings of Luci and Lynda Johnson and Patricia Nixon.
The White House Historical Associationcommissions the official White House Christmas ornament each year. This is the 36th ornamentin the series begun in 1981. The ornament honors 31st U.S.President Herbert Hoover and is inspired by the fire engines that responded tothe 1929 Christmas Eve fire at the White House and the toy trucks presented tochildren by the Hoovers the following Christmas.
The 2016 White House Christmas ornament honors the administration of the thirty-first president of the United States Herbert Hoover, who served from 1929 to 1933. The ornament is inspired by the fire engines that responded to the 1929 Christmas Eve fire at the White House and the toy trucks presented to children by the Hoovers the following Christmas. Crafted from shiny brass plated with
Journalists, especially those covering the White House, have arguably the most important job in a functioning Democracy: holding public officials accountable and making any wrongdoing known. While the job descriptions for journalists may change to adapt to a growing industry, the responsibility to keep the public informed should stay the same.
As Hugh Sidey said, the White House and the
“The 150-year era of the great steel plow, central instrument of American abundance and
strength, is ending,” wrote Hugh Sidey in 1992.
At face value, a story about revolution in farming practices has nothing to teach a journalist
about reporting on the presidency, but when it is considered in the scope of Sidey’s work and
career, “Revolution on the Farm” highlights
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I)
WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1
1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne
5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert Mellon
13 — White House Album: History in the Camera’s Eye by Oliver Jensen
23 — The Association’s Twentieth Year by Nash Castro
29 — History in White House Silver by Joseph D. Carr
39 — Stone Walls Preserved by James I. McDaniel
46 — A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of
Official Residences Around the World by Abby Clouse-Radigan This survey of the official residences and offices of some fifty nations around the world represents nearly one thousand years of building and renovating. Who lives in these residences? What were their original purposes and how have they been adapted for modern use? How do they project and preserve each nation's heritage?
Authors
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is currently the executive director at Wright’s Ferry Mansion in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Abbott has served as director of Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library, curator of American and European decorative arts for the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator and educator for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Boscobel House and Gardens, and Hist
The State Dining Room, which now seats as many as 140 guests, was originally much smaller and served at various times as a drawing room, office, and Cabinet Room. Today's State Dining Room incorporates the space that President Thomas Jefferson used as a private office. Tall and generously proportioned, the room had fireplaces on the east and west and was flooded
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off the landing to the right is the East Room. The largest of the State Rooms, it was designed by James Hoban and George Washington to be a "Public Audience Room." Second President John Adams and his wife First Lady Abigail
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the President's office and Cabinet Room next door. During the James Madison administration, the room became First Lady Dolley Madison's famous salon. A sunflower yellow, not red, dominated the room's decor. Visitors were received at her famous Wednesday night receptions in