2023 Next-Gen Leaders
As part of the White House Historical Association’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2021, the Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) initiative was announced. Th...
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As part of the White House Historical Association’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2021, the Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) initiative was announced. Th...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
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....
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
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...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...