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,...
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the gastronomical delights. The elegance of the State Dining...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
Elaine Rice Bachmann
Decatur House 8:00-8:45am Light Breakfast 8:45-9:00am Transition to the Carriage House 9:00-9:15am Welcome Stewart McLaurin, President, The...