Collection White House Women
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
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Collection Slavery in the President's Neighborhood
Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past an...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bio Hillary Clinton
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are...
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An Activist First Lady in Traditional Washington
The following excerpt is from Nancy Beck Young’s Lou Hoover: Activist First Lady, University of Kansas Press, 2004. The White Ho...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Slavery in the Andrew Jackson White House
In January 1829, less than two months before he became president, Andrew Jackson ordered an inventory of his slaves. The inventory...
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Betty Ford: A Very Special Lady
In the fall of 1976 “Keep Betty’s husband in the White House” campaign buttons erupted all over the country—a tribute...
