Collection Presidents & Baseball
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
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Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, 1903. President Roosevelt exchanged the sizzle of a Washington summer for the ocean breezes of Sagamore Hill, his Oyster Bay home and forever transformed the nature of the presidential vacation.
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
From the beginning of its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior...
What was it like to grow up in a home where some of the most important political decisions are being...
Camp David has provided presidents and their families with a recreational retreat from the White House, as well as a...
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
Biographies & Portraits
When I came to Iowa State, I had no idea what it meant to be a journalist. My idea of...
Jim AdamsJim Adams has been gardening in Washington, D.C., for over 25 years. His D.C. career began at the...
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
Historian Stacy A. Cordery is the author of four books, including New York Times bestselling biography Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth,...
Jill BidenJill Tracy Jacobs Biden was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey. Growing up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, she...