Collection Protest at the People's House
For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
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Collection An Artist Visits the White House Past
From the beginning of its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior...
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Collection Tudor Place
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Collection The Working White House
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Collection The President's Neighborhood
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to...
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Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"
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Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
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Collection President Truman's Renovation
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Collection James Hoban: Architect of the White House
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Glamour and Innovation: The Women Behind the Seams of Fashion at the White House
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The American Presidents Song
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