Podcast Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency
Mark K. Updegrove shares new historical perspectives on the Kennedy presidency from his recent book, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the...
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In this photograph, taken in the Oval Office on January 18, 1964 by Yoichi Okamoto, President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with a group of civil rights leaders. Among the group are the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (left), Whitney M.
Young, Jr. of the National Urban League (right), and James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (far right).
Mark K. Updegrove shares new historical perspectives on the Kennedy presidency from his recent book, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the...
On November 22, 1963, about two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the...
Native Americans hold a significant place in White House history. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples, including the Nacotchtank and...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
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...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
Long before the emergence of the United States and Italy as modern nation states were influenced by classical writers, philosophers,...
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