Collection The Historic Stephen Decatur House
In 1816 the naval war hero, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., and his wife, Susan, moved to the nascent capital city of...
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In 1816 the naval war hero, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., and his wife, Susan, moved to the nascent capital city of...
Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past an...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office. The framers of...
Shelley Stokes-Hammond prepared these biographical sketches as part of a project for a graduate documentation course at Goucher College where...
Eugene Allen served in the White House for 34 years. Assisting eight presidents, Allen’s top priority was to make the Wh...
Although President Thomas Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves in his lifetime, he brought only a handful with him to the...
President Thomas Jefferson was widely recognized as a Francophile, embracing all things French including art, culture, and custom. While serving...
Shortly before 5 p.m. on April 11, 1968, several congressional and African-American leaders gathered in the East Room of the White House...
Elias Polk was born into slavery in 1806 on a farm owned by Samuel Polk, father of the future president of...
While not as famous as the presidents they served, several African American slaves who lived inside the White House went...
Paul Jennings was born in 1799 at Montpelier, the Virginia estate of James and Dolley Madison. His mother, an enslaved woman...