President Johnson and Civil Rights
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
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A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
During his tenure in office President Nixon steered a middle course in domestic affairs and did not attempt to dismantle...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...
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 son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia “Lethe” Tanner purchased her freedom with $275 dollars she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...