Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
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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.
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for the first of his four terms as president of the United States....
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office at the height of the Great Depression. He ushered in an environment...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
“Backstage at a White House Wedding: Behind the Main Event.” Life Magazine, June 18, 1971: 40-49. Google Books. “Beene Speaks Out on that W...
The White House Collection and the Atlantic World Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Cambridge,...
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Matthew R. Costello is chief education officer for the White House Historical Association where he oversees education programs, historical research,...
Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar;...
The White House Historical Association has established an endowed position, the Marlyne Sexton Chair in White House History, in honor...
When I came to Iowa State, I had no idea what it meant to be a journalist. My idea of...