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Collection Native Americans and the White House

Native Americans hold a significant place in White House history. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples, including the Nacotchtank and...
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 Protest at the People's House

For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
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 Women and the White House

While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
U.S. Presidential Visits to Domestic Mosques

June 28, 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower - Islamic Center of WashingtonPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower's Remarks at Ceremonies Opening the Islamic CenterMr....
2022 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...
President Johnson and Civil Rights

A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
President Truman and Civil Rights

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
1862 Emancipation Petitions

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Civil War Washington” website has posted the 1862 Eman...
E. Frederick Morrow at the White House

E. Frederic Morrow was the first African American to serve in an executive position on a president’s staff at th...