Collection The Decatur House Slave Quarters
In 1821-1822, Susan Decatur requested the construction of a service wing. The first floor featured a large kitchen, dining room,...
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Oscar DePriest poses in front of a plane located on an airfield in Los Angeles, 1929. Oscar DePriest was part of the Bessie Coleman’s Aero Clubs, established to honor the memory of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to earn an international pilot’s license. The image is inscribed, “Compliments of your friends of Bessie Coleman Aero Clubs 1423 St. Jefferson Blvd., Los Angles Calif, 9-30-1929.”
In 1821-1822, Susan Decatur requested the construction of a service wing. The first floor featured a large kitchen, dining room,...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
As a public and digital historian, my work explores how and why groups and individuals reimagine the spaces around them...
Decatur House 8:00-8:45am Light Breakfast 8:45-9:00am Transition to the Carriage House 9:00-9:15am Welcome Stewart McLaurin, President, The...
Elaine Rice Bachmann
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
The White House Historical Association, chartered in 1961, is a nonprofit historical and educational organization that plays a vital role in...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
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 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...