Presidents' Day at the White House
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...
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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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Using Art to Study the Past
When studying events that occurred before the widespread use of photography, historians have used artwork to supplement resources such as...
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Provoked by Pearl Harbor
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Sunday, December 7, 1941, a day that would "live in infamy," for on that day the Empire...
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Saving History
The events leading up to the burning of the White House during the War of 1812 have been well chronicled. Eyewitness...
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Video Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day": Visit of the British Royals in 1939
An interview with Allida M. Black - Director and Editor, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers; Research Professor of History & International Affairs,...
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Video Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day": World War II at the White House
An interview with Allida M. Black - Director and Editor, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers; Research Professor of History & International Affairs,...
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Gallery Civil War Veterans at 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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Gallery Remembering First Lady Nancy Reagan
As first lady, Nancy Reagan lent her support to the Foster Grandparent Program, the subject of her 1982 book, To Love...
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Photo First Lady Nancy Reagan with Social Secretaries and Danielle Mitterrand, Wife of French President Francois Mitterrand
First Lady Nancy Reagan talks with her social secretary, Gahl Hodges Burt, as they walk through the Cross Hall of...
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Photo President and Mrs. Reagan and Frank Sinatra Entertain at an Italian State Dinner
First Lady Nancy Reagan, President Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra entertain guests in the East Room following a State Dinner...
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Photo History in the Camera's Eye: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Eleanor Roosevelt
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt are shown on the White House south lawn February 24, 1943 during the former's...