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First Lady Nancy Reagan hosts a luncheon in the State Dining Room for foreign first ladies following her First Ladies Conference on Drug Abuse, April 28, 1985.
Biographies & Portraits
The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
Through Ronald Reagan's eight years in office, the cold war came to an end, the country seemed to regain its...
"My life really began when I married my husband," says Nancy Reagan, who happily left an acting career for a...
Although President Thomas Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves in his lifetime, he brought only a handful with him to the...
Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans on December 1, 1814, and took charge of the city's defense, commanding that waterways be obstructed...
Following the close of World War II, Japan and the United States developed a close alliance and strategic and trade...
Shortly before Mordechai Booth fled the capital on Wednesday, August 24, 1814, he rode over to the President’s House to see wh...
WASHINGTON, Friday—The long expected arrival of Their Britannic Majesties has at last taken place. We drove down yesterday through an...
The Solarium on the Third Floor has been called the “The Camp David of the White House.”1 With its floor-to-ceiling wind...
One of the most moving moments in the early history of the White House took place in the Entrance Hall, w...
During the 1850s Japan gradually began to discard its isolationist foreign policy of sakoku (“locked country”) and began opening some of i...