Collection Art in the White House
The collection of fine art at the White House has evolved and grown over time. The collection began with mostly...
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Created August 28, 1963.
On August 28, 1963, President Kennedy met with organizers of the March on Washington in the Oval Office. To his right is civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. Martin Luther King, Jr. was present at the meeting as well.
The collection of fine art at the White House has evolved and grown over time. The collection began with mostly...
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of th...
After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wanted her husband to be remembered through a national cu...
For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
It is hard to imagine that it was something as casual as a lunch conversation between a newly elected president...
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
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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