Sharing White House History about William Henry Harrison
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
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The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
"Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my...
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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...
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...
The Cross Hall and large Entrance Hall are at the center of the original plan by James Hoban for the...
Death and the President's House, William Seale "First in War, First in Peace," and First in Death: A History of...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
No sport created more excitement, enthusiasm and interest in the colonial period and the early republic than horse racing. Presidents...
Before the death of William Henry Harrison in 1841, there was no established form for official mourning and funerals of presidents...
Nominated for president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns,...