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After the Fire

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeGetting It Right: The Embellished Obligations of Dolley Madison, Conover HuntRescue of the Papers of State During the Burning of Washington, Jessie Kratz"Articles of the Best Kind": James Monroe Furnishes the Rebuilt White House, Scott H. Harris and Jarod KearneyThe White House Collection: Reminders of 1814, Betty MonkmanA New Look for the Bicentennial, William G. AllmanHistory

After the White House

Foreword: After the White House by Marcia Mallet AndersonGoing, Going . . . GONE! A Survey of White House Auctions by Scott H. HarrisPieces of the White House Preserved: Renovation Relics by Wayne SmithCataloging History’s Return to the White House by Lauren McGwinA William King Jr. Chair Comes Back to the White House by Conover HuntFit for the First Ladies: A 1902 East Ro

Art, Artists, and the White House

Read Digital EditionForeword: "A Changing Portrait of America" by Marcia Mallet AndersonThe Official White House Portraits of President and Mrs. Barack Obama: David Rubenstein’s Conversation with the Artists, Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung Introduction by Stewart McLaurin The Peales in the White House: America’s First Family of Artists by Carol SoltisWhen Harry Met Pablo: The Strange True Story of t

As Time Goes By: Historic Moments in the Life of the White House

Foreword: A Journey Through White House Time by Marcia Mallet Anderson "The Man Who Kept the Presidency on Time": Johnny Muffler's Fifty-Four Years with the White House Clocks by Elyse Werling Lighthouse Clock, Simon Willard & Son, Roxbury, Massachusetts, c. 1825 by William G. AllmanThe Bathtub Hoax and Other Memorable Times in the History of White House Plumbing by Danny HeitmanMarble

At Work in the White House

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeUshers and Stewards Since 1800, Claire Faulkner"Under This Roof":The Art of Working on the White House Staff, Bradley PattersonOut-Takes: One Photographer's White House Experience, Maggie KnausMemoirs: The First White House Social Secretary, Isabella Hagner, Priscilla RooseveltMemoirs of Isabella Hagner 1901-1905, Isabella HagnerA Neighbor Returns More Than a Cup of Sugar, William G. Allman and Cindi

Away from the Glare: Presidential Retreats

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeThe Private Villa Retreat of Thomas Jefferson, Travis McDonaldThe Soldiers' Home: First Presidential Retreat, William SealeThe New Deal and the Catoctin Presidential Camps, Barbara KirkconnellTruman Beach: The 33rd President at Key West, Larry Lauder KnutsonWalker's Point: A Visit to the Maine Retreat of President George H. W. Bush, Hugh S. SideyBuy NowSubscribe to White House History

Behind the Scenes

Foreword: Behind the Scenes by Marcia AndersonThe Executive Residence Portraits Project Remembered: An Interview with White House Photographer Tina Hager by Tina Hager & Marcia AndersonWhite House Curatorial Storage: An Inside View by Donna Hayashi SmithIrineo Esperancilla, U.S. Navy Steward to Four Presidents: Faithful Service Remembered by Melinda Dart with Marcia AndersonEnvisioning the East Room of Abraham Lincoln’s Fu

Death and the White House

Read Digital VersionDeath and the President's House, William Seale "First in War, First in Peace," and First in Death: A History of Presidential Mourning, Matthew CostelloMedical Mystery: President William Henry Harrison Succumbs to a Fatal Illness in the White House, Richard F. GrimmettAbraham Lincoln's Funeral Train: The Solemn Journey from Washington to Springfield, John WhiteSociety Calls on Widow Mary Todd

Documenting the White House

Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeMaking the Most of the Archives: Finding White House Documentary Sources at the National Archives, Alysha E. BlackVisual Documents: Symbolic and Real Images of the White House, Alan FernPhotographing White House Furnishings, Bruce M. WhiteThe White House Collection: Research Sources in the Office of the Curator, Betty C. MonkmanBuy NowSubscribe to White House History