St. John's Church
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
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Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia Browning Tanner purchased her freedom with $1400 she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
During his tenure in office President Nixon steered a middle course in domestic affairs and did not attempt to dismantle...
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Prior to the 1939 visit of the queen and king of England, Eleanor Roosevelt received a State Department memorandum, listing various...
Before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building was built during 1922-25, a simple three-and-a-half story brick home stood in...
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
Civil Rights activist and journalist William Monroe Trotter caused a stir in 1914 because he strongly protested President Woodrow Wilson’s su...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...