Lighting the Menorah: Celebrating Hanukkah at the White House
Throughout the history of the United States, all the nation’s presidents have been Christians.1 In modern times, to celebrate th...
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Throughout the history of the United States, all the nation’s presidents have been Christians.1 In modern times, to celebrate th...
“Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some...
The United States remained neutral during the early years of World War I, from the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914,...
White House workers’ memoirs abound with recollections of significant international and national events and episodes. As they go about their da...
The first known image of the White House was a daguerreotype taken in 1846, during the administration of President James K....
In August 1814, British forces occupying the Chesapeake Bay began to sail up the Patuxent River in Maryland. Fearing an attack...
Today, Lafayette Park sits just north of the White House, enclosed by H Street NW (north), Madison Place (east), Pennsylvania...
In May 1865, at the close of hostilities, a Grand Review throughout Washington, D.C., exhibited parading Union troops from the...
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...
Savior of American portraiture, server of ice cream, dual term first lady and mentor of White House hostesses: all of...
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...