National History Day Resources
The 2024 National History Day (NHD) theme is Turning Points in History. The White House Historical Association offers a variety of resources to assist students working on NHD projects.
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The 2024 National History Day (NHD) theme is Turning Points in History. The White House Historical Association offers a variety of resources to assist students working on NHD projects.
Authors JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is currently the executive director at Wright’s Ferry Mansion in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Abbott has served as director of Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library, curator of American and European decorative arts for the Baltimore Museum of Art, and curator and educator for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Boscobel House and Gardens, and Hist
As part of the White House Historical Association’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2021, the Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) initiative was announced. The NGL cohort is a group of influential young professionals representing a wide variety of fields, bound together by a passion for history, civics, and education. NGL members serve as ambassadors for the Association's nonpartisan, nonprofit, and historic mission and to
Decatur House 8:00-8:45am Light Breakfast 8:45-9:00am Transition to the Carriage House 9:00-9:15am Welcome Stewart McLaurin, President, The White House Historical AssociationPaul Edmondson, President and CEO, The National Trust for Historic Preservation 9:15-10:30am Preserving Presidential Sites This panel will discuss the many challenges of preserving the residences of American presidents, along with how interpretations of those spaces (
In modern history, there is no precedent in which to underscore the tumultuous, unnerving and trying relationship between that of President Donald Trump and the news media. Past relationships between presidents and the press have offered divisiveness, yet no era quite exemplifies nor matches the challenges presented today. As newsrooms, both at a local and national level, struggle to remain
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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
President Donald Trump and the news media hold one of the most unusual relationships, especially when it comes to reporting on the presidency. It seems almost uncanny to believe that covering the President of the United States would bring along a lot of opinion, when reporters are expected to be unbiased. Trump hates the news media and believes they are “th
The David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History partners with a host of institutions to offer fellowships in White House history. Learn more about our current fellows below.
General White House Bibliography:Aikman, Lonnelle. The Living White House. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 1996. Cunliffe, Marcus. The American Heritage History of the Presidency. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1968. Dowd, Mary-Jane M., compiler. Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital - Record Group 42 Inventory No. 16. Washington, D.C.: National
When you want to look up presidential speeches as well as all of a president's public utterances, then the American Presidency Project website can be useful. It's especially helpful if you are looking for dates when presidents gave their State of the Union Address or when they gave press conferences, specifically nighttime ones held in the East Room. The site