Asantewa Boakyewa
Asantewa Boakyewa currently serves as Associate Director of Collections & Exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum. has he...
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Asantewa Boakyewa currently serves as Associate Director of Collections & Exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum. has he...
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia “Lethe” Tanner purchased her freedom with $275 dollars she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
For most of the 19th century, the structure of the White House staff remained generally the same. At the top...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Civil War Washington” website has posted the 1862 Eman...
Before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building was built during 1922-25, a simple three-and-a-half story brick home stood in...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...