Podcast Life on Lafayette Square
For more than two hundred years, Lafayette Square has been home to a wide variety of historical figures, from diplomats...
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For more than two hundred years, Lafayette Square has been home to a wide variety of historical figures, from diplomats...
At age 43, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest person ever elected to the presidency. Before his vibrant presidency was cut...
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of th...
In 1961, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy resolved to make the White House a “living museum” by restoring the historic integrity of the...
In 1963, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy helped arrange one of the most daring art exhibits in history, charming the French Government...
The White House Historical Association has been preserving and sharing White House history since its founding by First Lady Jacqueline...
After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wanted her husband to be remembered through a national cu...
For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to...
For two hundred years, Decatur House has stood as a near neighbor to the White House across Lafayette Square. Stewart...
Today, the celebration of Halloween conjures images of costumed trick-or-treaters, sweets, and jack-o'-lanterns; but there was a time when All...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...