Chinese State Visits
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....
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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....
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
The White House Historical Association published its first book, The White House: An Historic Guide, in 1962. It was the wish...
Throughout the history of the United States, all the nation’s presidents have been Christians.1 In modern times, to celebrate th...
The Dolley Madison House, a yellow structure on the corner of H Street and Madison Place in “The President’s Neig...
The annual White House Easter egg roll was a well-established tradition when President Herbert Hoover took office, and the Hoovers...
As the holidays approach, thoughts inevitably turn to sugar plums, gingerbread, and all of the other delectable treats that season...
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
“Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some...
White House workers’ memoirs abound with recollections of significant international and national events and episodes. As they go about their da...
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...