Podcast Our Work and Recent Events: A Q&A with David M. Rubenstein
In this special episode of The 1600 Sessions, financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein interviews White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin...
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The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He was enslaved for twenty years in city households in Baltimore and on Maryland farms. In 1838, he fled north and changed his name to Frederick Douglass.
In this special episode of The 1600 Sessions, financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein interviews White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin...
Since the James Madison presidency, St. John’s Church has been an important part of the life of Lafayette Square an...
The White House observance of Christmas before the twentieth century was not an official event. First families decorated the house...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...
For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
For two hundred years, Decatur House has stood as a near neighbor to the White House across Lafayette Square. Stewart...
From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White...
For more than two hundred years, Lafayette Square has been home to a wide variety of historical figures, from diplomats...
20202020 Best Book AwardsThe Official White House Christmas Ornament: Collected Stories of a Holiday Tradition, Winner, Novelty & Gift BookPresidents Play!...
WILLIAM ADAIR is a frame historian, conservator, and gilder in Washington, D.C. (WHH #54) WILLIAM G. ALLMAN served more than...