Collection White House Women
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
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Nancy Beck Young’s book Lou Hoover: Activist First Lady, University of Kansas Press, 2004. The White House Historical Association provided a grant to support the book project.
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past an...
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Biographies & Portraits
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are...
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and...
Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover had experience as wife of a man eminent in...
In the fall of 1976 “Keep Betty’s husband in the White House” campaign buttons erupted all over the country—a tribute...
President Thomas Jefferson was widely recognized as a Francophile, embracing all things French including art, culture, and custom. While serving...
In January 1829, less than two months before he became president, Andrew Jackson ordered an inventory of his slaves. The inventory...