2024 Next-Gen Leaders
As part of the White House Historical Association’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2021, the Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) initiative was announced. Th...
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As part of the White House Historical Association’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2021, the Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) initiative was announced. Th...
The 2024 National History Day (NHD) theme is Turning Points in History. The White House Historical Association offers a variety of...
Authors JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is currently the executive director at Wright’s Ferry Mansion in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Abbott has served as...
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
The Cross Hall and large Entrance Hall are at the center of the original plan by James Hoban for the...
James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended that the space now called the "Green Room" be used...