Biography
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Biography
Sarah Yorke Jackson
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Eliza McCardle Johnson: Conflicting Memories and Vanishing Evidence of the Enslaved Past
In 1980, Margaret Johnson Patterson Bartlett, great-granddaughter of First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson and President Andrew Johnson, gave an oral interview at Harpers Ferry about the history of her family. Alluding that her ancestors wanted to keep certain family secrets hidden from the public, Mrs. Bartlett recalled when her father sold documents to the Library of Congress in 1904: “My daddy [Andrew Jo
The White House Historical Association’s Presidential Sites Summit is September 25 – 28, 2023
The White House Historical Association will host the Presidential Sites Summit at the historic Mayflower Hotel September 25-28. The Summit, this year themed “Change and Continuity,” will draw leaders from presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums across the country to discuss changes in historic interpretation, educating the public, civic engagement, and technology. This year’s Summit will feature speakers including former
“Behind the Scenes at the White House” NEW ISSUE of White House History Quarterly
The White House Historical Association today released the 70th issue of its award-winning magazine, White House History Quarterly, “Behind the Scenes.” In her foreword, Marcia Anderson, editor of the Quarterly, explains, “Our authors have turned to photo albums, storage areas, diaries, and keepsakes to bring unexplored history to light. They take the reader behind the scenes, exploring from the rooftop to bas
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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
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Kate Clarke Lemay
Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar; a presidential counselor to the National WWII Museum; an advisor to Panorama, the journal of the Association of Historians of American Art; and an advisor to the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation. Dr. Lemay’s books include Triumph of the