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Photographing the White House

Foreword: Photographing the President's House by Marcia Anderson Privileged Access: The Earliest Photographs of White House Interiors by Clifford Krainik The White House in 1889: The Discovery of Walter Hussey's Glass-Plate Negatives by Richard Hussey The Ultimate Insiders: White House Chief Photographers by Kenneth T. Walsh A Photographer Remembers: My Brief Career as a Washington, D.C. Street Photographer in the 1950

Plans and Schemes

Read Digital EditionForeword, Robert L. BreedenBenjamin Brown French in the Lincoln Period, Michael SpanglerThe Photographs of Ralph Waldo Magee, Lydia Barker TederickBenjamin Latrobe and Thomas Jefferson Redesign the President’s House, Michael Fazio and Patrick SnadonVisiting Ireland’s Leinster House: Model for the White House, Elizabeth B. GoldsmithThe Twenty-First Century White House, James I. McDaniel andAnn Bowman SmithBuy NowSubscribe to Whit

Political Cartoons and the White House

Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealeThomas Nast: "The Father of the American Cartoon," Fiona Deans HalloranClifford K. Berryman: The Dean of American Cartoonists, Jessie Kratz and Martha GroveThe White House as a Symbol in the Cartoons of Herblock: Selections from the Library of Congress, Sara W. DukeNewspaperman Francis Preston Blair's Cartoon Collection at Blair House, Elaine M. GibbsCartoons from the

President Adams Moves In

Read Digital EditionForeword, Robert L. BreedenThe Paradox of High Station: Abigail Adams as First Lady, Edith B. GellesThe Midnight Appointments, Richard A. SamuelsonThe White House in John Adams's Presidency, William SealeJohn Adams: Farmer and Gardener, Corliss Knapp EngleA Classical Turn: Fashion in the Time of President John Adams, Lynne Zacek BassettThe White House Collection: John and Abigail Adams: A Tradition

President Eisenhower's White House

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeDwight David Eisenhower: The First Television President, Martha Joynt Kumar"She's Making Maturity Glamorous": Mamie Eisenhower's White House Style, Edith MayoPresident Eisenhower: Painter, Sister Wendy BeckettThe Eisenhower Family Home in Abilene, Kansas, Dennis Medina"Proud Housewife": Mamie Eisenhower Collects for the White House, Melissa Naulin"In the Goodness of Time": Creating the Dwight David Eisenhower Room

Presidential Horses

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealePresidents as Horsemen, William B. BushongArlington's Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House, Claire A. FaulknerAndrew Jackson's Constitution Carriage, Marsha MullinTen Notable Horses, Gwendolyn K. WhiteBuy NowSubscribe to White House History

Presidential Inaugurations

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeTaking the Oath of Office: The Capitol Connection, Donald R. Kennon"Not a Ragged Mob": The Inauguration of 1829, David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. HeidlerAfternoon Accolades: A Cultural History of White House Inaugural Reviewing Stands, James M. GoodePresidential Inaugurations: Solemnities and Festivities, Paul F. Boller Jr.Inaugural Balls: From Their Beginnings, Katie E. MaragesInaugural Planning: Minutes

Presidential Journeys

Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealePresident Grover Cleveland's Goodwill Tour of 1887, John H. White Jr."Off for the Ditch": Theodore and Edith Roosevelt Visit Panama in 1906, Catherine ForslundMotor Cars Come to the White House, Hillary MannionThe Presidents and the National Parks, Gary ScottA White House Exhibit on the National Parks, Lydia Tederick"A Journey into Nowhere": The Redirected Vacation of

Presidential Kin

Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealeThe Indomitable Sara Delano Roosevelt Mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mary Jo Binker and Diane Lobb-BoyceThe Royal Family at Arlington House: George Washington Park Custis Creates a Shrine, Keith D. MacKayJames Madison's Brother Willey, Stuart L. ButlerNell Arthur's Memorial Window: History Reflected in Saint John's Church, Nenette Marie Arroyo"A House Divided Cannot Stand":