The Working White House: Witness to History
White House workers’ memoirs abound with recollections of significant international and national events and episodes. As they go about their da...
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White House workers’ memoirs abound with recollections of significant international and national events and episodes. As they go about their da...
The annual White House Easter egg roll was a well-established tradition when President Herbert Hoover took office, and the Hoovers...
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...
In May 1865, at the close of hostilities, a Grand Review throughout Washington, D.C., exhibited parading Union troops from the...
“Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some...
Few people today know the story of a Sicilian-born sailor named Salvadore Catalano who became an early American naval hero....
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
As the holidays approach, thoughts inevitably turn to sugar plums, gingerbread, and all of the other delectable treats that season...
So much about the new United States was new—a democracy in a world full of monarchies, an elected president in...
Further pursuing our interest in the neighborhood context of the White House, as well as the presidential complex itself, this...
The first known image of the White House was a daguerreotype taken in 1846, during the administration of President James K....