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The White House Stone

Read Digital Edition Foreword, Robert L. BreedenWhite House Album: Beauty and History Preserved in Stone, William SealeThe Stonemasons Who Built the White House, William SealeThe Quarries at Aquia and Seneca, Gary ScottRestoring the Original White House Stone, Patrick J. PlunkettThe Politics of Public Building: William Thornton and President's Square, C.M. HarrisThe White House Collection: Recent Acquisitions, Betty C. Monkman

Thomas Jefferson's White House

Read Digital EditionForeword, William Seale"A Well-Ordered Household": Domestic Servants in Jefferson's White House, Lucia StantonJefferson's White House Dinner Guests, Charles T. CullenThe Adena Dumbwaiters: A Glimpse into Jefferson's Executive Mansion, Stewart D. HobbsNew Wine in an Old Bottle 2006: Changes Inside the White House with photography by Peter VitaleBuy NowSubscribe to White House History

Turning Points at the White House: Great Expectations

Read Digital Version Foreword, William SealeThe First Ladies as Scene Builders: An Artist’s Gallery of Changes at the White House, Lauren McGwin, illustrated by Peter WaddellCreating a Room of its Own: The Evolution of the White House China Room, Melissa NaulinAn Artist’s Drawings for a New White House Piano: Dunbar Beck and the Art of the Nation’s Second

Veterans Day, the White House, and the Centennial of the End of World War I

Read Digital Version Foreword by William SealeWoodrow Wilson’s War: A Perilous Fight by John Milton CooperThe White House in the Great War: From Diplomacy to Remembrance by Edward LengelThe Espionage Scene in Washington: Collusion, Secrets and Spies by Thomas BoghardtApril 6, 1917: War is Declared Against the German Empire by Michael BeschlossThe Pilgrim’s Passage: President Wilson’s Voyage to France on the

Visiting the White House

Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealeCollecting White House Memories: Silver Spoons as Souvenirs, Rebecca Yerkes RogersA Visit to the White House in the 1940s: A Childhood Memory, Jeannine Smith ClarkThe President Smiled at Me and Other Memories of Washington, Lonn TaylorGrand Duke Alexis, A "Scion of Despotism," Visits the Ulysses S. Grant White House, Lee A. FarrowThe Infanta Eulalia of

Waysides

Foreword: Not to be Forgotten by Marcia Mallet AndersonWalter Paris: Forgotten Artist of the White House Neighborhood by Peter R. PenczerMadeline's Fifty-year Journey to the White House: The Friendship Between First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Ludwig Bemelmans that Led to a White House Book by Courtney SpeckmannRemembering the Life and Work of Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson: A Conversation with her Niece

White House and Television

Foreword: Absorbing the Reality and Imagining More by Marcia Mallet AndersonHow Television Depicts U.S. Presidents and the White House by Kenneth T. WalshTelevision Comes to the White House to Stay by Rebecca Durgin KerrThe West Wing Takes Television into the White House: Behind-the-Scenes Memories of the Reinvention of Political Theater by Marc FreemanGetting to Sesame Street with the First

White House Flowers: Embellishing the President's Table

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeFirst Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt's "Colonial Garden" at the White House, Mac Keith GriswoldJames Monroe's White House Plateau: "A perfect riot of festooned railings and graceful figures," Melissa NaulinFlowers for the President's Table: State Dining Room Splendor, Nancy ClarkeWhite House Brides and Envisioned Flowers: Two Nineteenth-Century White House Weddings, With an Album of other White House

White House Historical Association Turns Sixty

Read Digital Version Foreword: Celebrating Sixty Years by Marcia Mallet AndersonThe Stage is Set: Washington D.C., 1961In the Beginning: The Founders Remember the Creating of the White House Historical Association by Mary Jo BinkerThe Kennedy Restoration: Historic Interiors with a Past for the Present ... and Future by James Archer Abbott and Elaine Rice BachmannSixty Years, Twelve Visionaries: Fulfilling the