Collection Women and the White House
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
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Eleanor Roosevelt with female reporters in the Treaty Room, 1933, after a press conference for female journalists.
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Biographies & Portraits
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
Jill BidenJill Tracy Jacobs Biden was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey. Growing up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, she...
May 6, 2021This program will be virtual9:00-9:15amWelcome and Overview Jill Biden, First Lady of the United StatesAnita McBride, Director...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
AuthorsJAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is a graduate of Vassar College (B.A.) and the State University of New York’s Museum St...
Foreword, William SealeThe Style of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: Fashion and Frugality in Times of Depression and War, Morgan BlattenbergThe...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...