Collection All Hallows' Eve Haunts & Traditions
Today, the celebration of Halloween conjures images of costumed trick-or-treaters, sweets, and jack-o'-lanterns; but there was a time when All...
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The assassination of President Lincoln as illustrated in publications of the day. This print, showing John Wilkes Booth's leap from the box was less familiar, but also printed for a public hungry for illustration of the event.
Today, the celebration of Halloween conjures images of costumed trick-or-treaters, sweets, and jack-o'-lanterns; but there was a time when All...
Thanksgiving is a relatively quiet and personal holiday at the White House, as it precedes a very busy season of...
Biographies & Portraits
Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine,...
Tall, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only president who never...
As a girlhood companion remembered her, Mary Todd was vivacious and impulsive, but "she now and then could not restrain...
In the summer of 1864, Kentuckian John Bullock called upon President Abraham Lincoln at the White House to make a personal...
The White House Usher’s Office is one of the most singular working spaces in the world, with a tradition th...
On April 23, 1932, Shakespeare-lovers from around the country flocked to Washington, D.C., to attend the dedication of the handsome new...
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the United States. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed soon after. In...
Benjamin Brown French first arrived in Washington City in December 1833 and went to work for the House of Representatives. A...
Abraham Lincoln was one of America’s most unmusical presidents. He could neither play an instrument nor carry a tune, ye...