Racial Tension in the 1970s
During his tenure in office President Nixon steered a middle course in domestic affairs and did not attempt to dismantle...
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During his tenure in office President Nixon steered a middle course in domestic affairs and did not attempt to dismantle...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia Browning Tanner purchased her freedom with $1400 she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
Paul Jennings, who was born a slave on President James Madison’s estate at Montpelier in 1799, was a "body servant" wh...
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
One of the most memorable performances in White House history was Marian Anderson’s rendition of Schubert’s "Ave Maria" as t...
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
E. Frederic Morrow was the first African American to serve in an executive position on a president’s staff at th...