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The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
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Reporters sprint across the West Wing lobby to the Press Room with news that Japan has surrendered, August 14, 1945.
The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
Although President Thomas Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves in his lifetime, he brought only a handful with him to the...
WASHINGTON, Friday—The long expected arrival of Their Britannic Majesties has at last taken place. We drove down yesterday through an...
During the 1850s Japan gradually began to discard its isolationist foreign policy of sakoku (“locked country”) and began opening some of i...
The press has always been part of the White House story. From friendly to hostile, with many colors in-between, the...
One of the most moving moments in the early history of the White House took place in the Entrance Hall, w...
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
On a cold March 11, 1809, Thomas Jefferson paid the ferryman $1 to take him and his carriage across the Potomac River at...
The Solarium on the Third Floor has been called the “The Camp David of the White House.”1 With its floor-to-ceiling wind...
Following the close of World War II, Japan and the United States developed a close alliance and strategic and trade...
Shortly before Mordechai Booth fled the capital on Wednesday, August 24, 1814, he rode over to the President’s House to see wh...