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Edith Kermit Roosevelt in 1901.
Biographies & Portraits
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have displayed a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest president in the nation's history. He brought...
Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne....
Theodore Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill sits on top of a hill overlooking the Long Island Sound, nestled between pr...
The White House Historical Association began an oral history project in 2010 under the guidance of Maria Downs, the association’s pu...
Theodore Roosevelt’s remodeling of the White House in 1902 transformed it from a crazy quilt of alterations over time into a...
Article 2 Section 1 of the United States Constitution begins with the following: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of...
On Saturday, October 24, 1903, the sensationalist New York World reported that President Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb Jr., outfitted the me...
Increased coverage by the press and public interest in the lives of the White House families inevitably has led to...
A house more thoroughly documented than the White House is difficult to imagine. Historians and students of White House history...
Prior to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Panama in 1906, no American president had set foot outside the co...