Lighting the Menorah: Celebrating Hanukkah at the White House
Throughout the history of the United States, all the nation’s presidents have been Christians.1 In modern times, to celebrate th...
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Throughout the history of the United States, all the nation’s presidents have been Christians.1 In modern times, to celebrate th...
James Buchanan is often regarded as one of the worst presidents in United States history.1 Many historians contend that Buchanan’s...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.1 An...
So much about the new United States was new—a democracy in a world full of monarchies, an elected president in...
Savior of American portraiture, server of ice cream, dual term first lady and mentor of White House hostesses: all of...
Today, Lafayette Park sits just north of the White House, enclosed by H Street NW (north), Madison Place (east), Pennsylvania...
The first known image of the White House was a daguerreotype taken in 1846, during the administration of President James K....
This shaving mirror, one of a pair, has a remarkable history. It not only reflected the face of President James...
This number of White House History recalls the burning of the White House, which took place in 1814, two hundred years...
The United States remained neutral during the early years of World War I, from the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914,...
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...
Further pursuing our interest in the neighborhood context of the White House, as well as the presidential complex itself, this...