The Electric Career of Ike Hoover
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
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A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
In 1791, working with George Washington, artist and engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant prepared a city plan for Washington, D.C., reserving...
The first bath tubs in the White House were portable and made of tin; water was hauled in buckets. Running...
President John Adams first occupied the President's House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
Care of any museum collection includes the conservation of objects to correct or stabilize deterioration from age or exhibition. Although...
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...
Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, several major proposals were made to alleviate crowding at the White House...
In August 1814, British forces occupying the Chesapeake Bay began to sail up the Patuxent River in Maryland. Fearing an attack...
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
In our own time thoughts about “the West” have been rather vividly colored by popular culture imagery depicting the rugged indi...