Presidential Horses
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealePresidents as Horsemen, William B. BushongArlington's Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House, Claire A....
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Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealePresidents as Horsemen, William B. BushongArlington's Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House, Claire A....
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...
President John Adams first occupied the President's House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
Enslaved labor was not limited to plantations. Painters, cabinetmakers, blacksmiths, sculptors, and craftsmen in the early United States relied on...
Slavery was ingrained into Washington, D.C. society from its inception. Set between two slave states—Virginia and Maryland—enslaved peop...