The Presidency and Historic Preservation Symposium Contributors
Elaine Rice Bachmann
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Elaine Rice Bachmann
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
Catherine Allgor is the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Previously, she had been the Nadine and Robert Skotheim Director...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and mo...
The State Dining Room, which now seats as many as 140 guests, was originally much smaller and served at various times...