Did Slaves Build the White House?
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
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Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
A master of the art of practical politics, Lyndon Johnson came into the White House after the tragedy of President...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
Asantewa Boakyewa currently serves as Associate Director of Collections & Exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum. has he...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...
Prior to the 1939 visit of the queen and king of England, Eleanor Roosevelt received a State Department memorandum, listing various...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
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...