The First Ladies and Slavery
Most Americans do not associate the first ladies with slave ownership. In fact, it may be surprising to learn that...
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Most Americans do not associate the first ladies with slave ownership. In fact, it may be surprising to learn that...
Thomas Smallwood detailed the circumstances of his enslavement and life as a free Black man living in Washington City in...
Although Michelle Obama was the first African-American first lady of the United States, African Americans have been integrally involved in...
On April 15, 1848, the Pearl schooner was docked at the wharf located at the foot of Seventh Street in Washington, D....
In several ways, James Hoban’s life resembles the classic immigrant success story. Born to a modest family in County Ki...
Charles Willson Peale is synonymous with eighteenth-century portraiture. His depictions of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and other famous...
At the corner of H Street and Connecticut Avenue, the United States Chamber of Commerce Building sits where a three-and-a-half...
“Would it be superstitious to presume, that the Sovereign Father of all nations, permitted the perpetration of this apparently execrable tr...
The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington D.C. was founded in 1802, shortly after Washington D.C. became...
On May 2, 1812, Captain Paul Cuffe arrived at the White House for a meeting with President James Madison.1 The internationally renowned...
Elias Polk was born into slavery in 1806 on a farm owned by Samuel Polk, father of the future president of...
Paul Jennings was born in 1799 at Montpelier, the Virginia estate of James and Dolley Madison. His mother, an enslaved woman...