President and Mrs. Adams Invite the United States Marine Band
President and Mrs. John Adams were the first occupants of the White House in the nation’s new capital, the Ci...
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President and Mrs. John Adams were the first occupants of the White House in the nation’s new capital, the Ci...
When Whig opponents chanted “Who is James K. Polk?” throughout the presidential election of 1844, it was more an attempt to infl...
Stained glass, a medieval art, was revisited in the historically retrospective nineteenth century. The art was a prominent feature of...
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the United States. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed soon after. In...
Since the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant in 1873, inaugural reviewing stands— temporary pavilions built in front of the White Ho...
Three key features characterize nearly every presidential inauguration: the oath of office taken by the president at the Capitol, the...
The Green Room, positioned between the East Room and the Blue Room, is one of the principal parlors of the...
On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York City. Later he said of this new presidential...
Nearly two decades after his election to the presidency, Thomas Jefferson elaborated on the significance of this triumph to his...
During the Civil War, the fighting at times came so close to the capital that the Lincolns could hear the...
Historians have previously discussed the wider impact of technological innovations that facilitated the emergence of the illustrated press in the...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, some people believed that the automobile was a toy for the rich that...