Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
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A quilt said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley from scraps of Mary Todd Lincoln's dresses.
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...
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...
WILLIAM ADAIR is a frame historian, conservator, and gilder in Washington, D.C. (WHH #54) WILLIAM G. ALLMAN served more than...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
The White House Historical Association, chartered in 1961, is a nonprofit historical and educational organization that plays a vital role in...
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and mo...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
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...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...