Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
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A ground floor plan made in 1943 shows the location of the Press Room in the northwest corner of the West Wing and the swimming pool in its original location at the center of the West Terrace
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
The White House observance of Christmas before the twentieth century was not an official event. First families decorated the house...
Americans are familiar with the ceremonies of Inauguration Day, when a new President takes the oath of office at the...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
The White House Collection and the Atlantic World Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Cambridge,...
Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar;...
Matthew R. Costello is chief education officer for the White House Historical Association where he oversees education programs, historical research,...
“Backstage at a White House Wedding: Behind the Main Event.” Life Magazine, June 18, 1971: 40-49. Google Books. “Beene Speaks Out on that W...