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Jill BidenJill Tracy Jacobs Biden was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey. Growing up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, she...
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...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
Congress has always been tasked with appropriating funds for the care, repair, refurnishing and maintenance of the White House and...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Read Digital VersionDeath and the President's House, William Seale "First in War, First in Peace," and First in Death: A...
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeThe Office of the First Lady: Managing Public Duties, Private Lives, and Changing Expectations, Anita B....
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...