The White House, Lafayette Square and African Americans
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
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To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
Read Digital EditionForeword: A Dramatic Moment in American History, Robert L. BreedenThe Burning of Washington, Anthony S. PitchThe White House...
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeEditing the First Lady: Life Magazine Goes to the White House, Hugh SideyRemembering the Glorious Kennedy...
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeThe Willard Hotel, Elizabeth Smith BrownsteinNotable Prominent Neighbors: Personalities of Saint John's Church, Richard F. GrimmettThe...
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
January 29, 1979: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was the highest-ranking Chinese visitor to the White House since Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited in 1943....
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 Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Civil War Washington” website has posted the 1862 Eman...
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...