Event History Happy Hour: You’re Invited to “Entertaining at the White House”
As part of the White House Historical Association’s 2023 Presidential Sites Summit, History Happy Hour will be live streaming a sp...
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Presidential Sites Summit Speaker
Louis L. Picone is the award-winning author of Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon, The President Is Dead! Extraordinary Stories of the Presidential Deaths, Final Days, Burials, and Beyond and Where the Presidents Were Born: The History & Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces.
Louis is a member of the Authors Guild, the American Historical Association, and is also a trustee on the board of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association in Caldwell, NJ. He holds a Masters in History and also teaches at William Paterson University.
Louis has spoken widely on the topic of the presidents and the places we commemorate them, including the White House Historical Association, James A. Garfield National Historic Site, and the international conference "U.S. Presidents and Russian Rulers" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. After the passing of President George H.W. Bush, Louis was interviewed by the BBC, NPR, and Washington Post to discuss the former president's legacy and the history of presidential funerals.
As part of the White House Historical Association’s 2023 Presidential Sites Summit, History Happy Hour will be live streaming a sp...
The White House Historical Association will host the Presidential Sites Summit on September 25 - 28, 2023. The Summit will open with a...
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