Introduction: Where Oh Where Should the Capital Be?
So much about the new United States was new—a democracy in a world full of monarchies, an elected president in...
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So much about the new United States was new—a democracy in a world full of monarchies, an elected president in...
On April 2, 1814 British Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane issued a proclamation stating that "all persons who may be disposed" to escape...
The British decided in 1814 to relieve pressure on their forces in Canada by launching diversionary assaults in the Chesapeake Bay...
In late May 1814, Commodore Joshua Barney, the veteran leader of the U.S. flotilla in the upper Chesapeake, left his...
Savior of American portraiture, server of ice cream, dual term first lady and mentor of White House hostesses: all of...
In August 1814, British forces occupying the Chesapeake Bay began to sail up the Patuxent River in Maryland. Fearing an attack...
This number of White House History recalls the burning of the White House, which took place in 1814, two hundred years...
This shaving mirror, one of a pair, has a remarkable history. It not only reflected the face of President James...
The nation went to war without a wide-ranging financial strategy. The federal government's revenue largely came from customs duties and...
On September 8, 1814, the Madisons moved into the Octagon, second in size only to the burned President's House, and the only...
Many Washington residents, fearing the rumored British attack, had packed what they could on wagons or set out on foot...
Shortly before Mordechai Booth fled the capital on Wednesday, August 24, 1814, he rode over to the President’s House to see wh...