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Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"

The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'

First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Collection The Working White House

For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
Collection White House Women

While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
Bio Hillary Clinton

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are...
Indiana and the White House

The White House is often referred to as the “people’s house.” Indeed, many people from across the United States have i...
African Americans & The Decatur House

Few people know the story of a brave woman named Charlotte Dupuy who was enslaved in Decatur House, the large...
How Early White House Conversations Influenced Civil Rights

Shortly before 5 p.m. on April 11, 1968, several congressional and African-American leaders gathered in the East Room of the White House...
The Complexities of Slavery in the Nation's Capital

For the first seventy-two years of its existence, the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., harbored one of America’s most...
The Enslaved Household of President Andrew Jackson

In January 1829, less than two months before he became president, Andrew Jackson ordered an inventory of his slaves. The inventory...
Gracy Bradley's White House

On November 24, 1831, Andrew Jackson, Jr. married Sarah Yorke. President Andrew Jackson, a devoted father, wanted to give his son’s ne...
From the White House to Freedom on the Underground Railroad

First published in 1872, William Still’s The Underground Rail Road drew on the author’s personal experience working with the Penn...