Collection America Under Fire
The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
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Significant Events
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Papal Visits to the White House
October 6, 1979 - Pope John Paul II: Pope John Paul arrives at 1:43 p.m. in an open-topped limousine. He smiled and...
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The White House and Space Exploration
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
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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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African Americans in the Lincoln White House
During the Lincoln Administration some of Buchanan’s British-born domestic staff remained and other workers were brought from Illinois. There we...
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Capturing History
The first known image of the White House was a daguerreotype taken in 1846, during the administration of President James K....
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Civil War Veterans Visit the White House
In May 1865, at the close of hostilities, a Grand Review throughout Washington, D.C., exhibited parading Union troops from the...
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April 6, 1917
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...
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Picketing the White House
In the second half of the nineteenth century Americans headed west to seek greater opportunities for themselves and their families....
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The American Protective League and White House Security During World War One
The United States remained neutral during the early years of World War I, from the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914,...
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Monuments to the American Revolution in Lafayette Park
In 1853, Clark Mills’ statue of President Andrew Jackson on horseback is in the center of Lafayette Park. The park’s four...
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Hoover Easter Egg Rolls
The annual White House Easter egg roll was a well-established tradition when President Herbert Hoover took office, and the Hoovers...