Franklin D. Roosevelt's Train Ferdinand Magellan
Before U.S. Air Force One there was U.S. Train Car Number One, designed for the specifications of President...
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt owned the 40-volume collection of the Temple Shakespeare, Israel Gollancz edition. The title page of the Hamlet volume is seen here. With his 1943 inscription on the flysheet, President Roosevelt gave the set to the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Before U.S. Air Force One there was U.S. Train Car Number One, designed for the specifications of President...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
The death of President Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, took the world wholly by surprise. Although those close to him had feared...
As he left the White House in 1869, President Andrew Johnson supposedly exclaimed that he could “already smell the sweet mountain ai...
On December 13, 1941, six days after the “infamy” of Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill boarded the battleship Duke of York bound for Amer...
Many presidents have used ships for both relaxation and diplomacy. From fishing to meetings with foreign dignitaries, water travel provides...
During Franklin Roosevelt’s twelve years as president, cars were a source of transportation, visibility, protection, and even amusement. When he...
The first president to travel by airplane was actually a former president. On October 11, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt accompanied aviator Archibald Hoxsey...
The White House has many holiday traditions, some of which are historic and others more recent. New arrivals to the...