Collection The Decatur House Slave Quarters
In 1821-1822, Susan Decatur requested the construction of a service wing. The first floor featured a large kitchen, dining room,...
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Book cover, My 21 Years in the White House, 1961, by Alonzo Fields. When Fields first started working at the White House in 1931, he discovered there were “separate dining rooms—black and white. We all worked together, but we couldn’t eat together. . . . Here in the White House, I’m working for the President. This is the home of the democracy of the world and I’m good enough to handle the President’s food—to handle the President’s food and do everything—but I cannot eat with the [white] help.”
In 1821-1822, Susan Decatur requested the construction of a service wing. The first floor featured a large kitchen, dining room,...
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the gastronomical delights. The elegance of the State Dining...
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
David M. Rubenstein is co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful pr...
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian; he assumed his position June 16, 2019. As secretary, he oversees...
The White House Collection and the Atlantic World Jennifer L. Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Cambridge,...
Elaine Rice Bachmann
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...