Slavery and the White House
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
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Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
Asantewa Boakyewa currently serves as Associate Director of Collections & Exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum. has he...
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
The White House Historical Association, chartered in 1961, is a nonprofit historical and educational organization that plays a vital role in...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...