Thanksgiving at the White House
Thanksgiving at the White House is a quiet holiday for the presidents family, featuring a meal that traditionally included turkey,...
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Thanksgiving at the White House is a quiet holiday for the presidents family, featuring a meal that traditionally included turkey,...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...
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...
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...