Frederick Douglass
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
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The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
In 1791, working with George Washington, artist and engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant prepared a city plan for Washington, D.C., reserving...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
The first bath tubs in the White House were portable and made of tin; water was hauled in buckets. Running...
President John Adams first occupied the President's House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it...
In 1902, the executive offices were moved from the second floor of the White House to the newly erected Executive Office...
While neither President nor Mrs. Eisenhower was especially knowledgeable in European classical music, they recognized the value of the music...
In 1945, Harry S. Truman proposed a major West Wing expansion that would add a studio and auditorium for press briefings....
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...
The stables, built on the White House grounds over a period of a century, were never intended to be great...