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In our own time thoughts about “the West” have been rather vividly colored by popular culture imagery depicting the rugged indi...
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Reporters use telephones located in the White House Press Room to call the day’s stories into their news desks, c. 1937.
In our own time thoughts about “the West” have been rather vividly colored by popular culture imagery depicting the rugged indi...
So much about the new United States was new—a democracy in a world full of monarchies, an elected president in...
The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has been the on-grounds quarters for the White House correspondents and news photographers...
Versailles, Potsdam, and other grand relics of power are all imposing architecture and vistas, one always leading to another— Ossa pi...
Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, several major proposals were made to alleviate crowding at the White House...
President and Mrs. George Bush recognized music as a supreme American gesture, a vital symbol of American life as it...
In 2005, The White House Historical Association released The White House Remembered,Volume 1: Recollections by Presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R....
In August 1814, British forces occupying the Chesapeake Bay began to sail up the Patuxent River in Maryland. Fearing an attack...
While neither President nor Mrs. Eisenhower was especially knowledgeable in European classical music, they recognized the value of the music...
A recent magazine article described the garden of the White House, “known as the President’s Park,” as covering 82 acres and en...
President Millard Fillmore and his family were particularly musical. Mrs. Fillmore, the former Abigail Powers, made certain the White House...
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...