Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
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A women's suffrage protest held the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913.
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
In April 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York City. Constitutional guidelines for inaugurations are sparse, offering...
Biographies & Portraits
Jimmy Carter promised a government "as competent, as compassionate, as good" as the American people. His achievements were notable, but...
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not...
Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial,...
"I am naturally the most unambitious of women and life in the White House has no attractions for me," Ellen...
Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the...
American women did not yet possess the right to vote when Woodrow Wilson was elected to his first term in...
In the second half of the nineteenth century Americans headed west to seek greater opportunities for themselves and their families....
The spirit of Dolley Madison is everywhere in the blocks surrounding the White House. She lived at 1333 F Street, in...
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...