A Very Hoover Holiday
Christmas of 1929 was a snowy season in the nation’s capital. President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Hoover planned to...
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Christmas of 1929 was a snowy season in the nation’s capital. President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Hoover planned to...
In the nineteenth century, two mansions sitting approximately one hundred miles apart were both called the “White House.” The White Hous...
Sixty miles outside of Washington, D.C. is a rustic wilderness retreat that serves presidents and first families as a...
Leaving the White House during the summer is an old tradition of the presidents. Those with farms, such as Dwight...
For the politicians, civil servants, and accompanying citizenry of the new federal government—freshly arrived in 1800 from comfortable, sophisticated Philadelphia—the...
During Franklin Roosevelt’s twelve years as president, cars were a source of transportation, visibility, protection, and even amusement. When he...
Many presidents have enjoyed the sport of fishing. This pastime provides an opportunity to relax or to enjoy the sportsman’s...
Social dancing was especially enjoyed during the terms of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley and its popularity within the White...
The primary Easter Monday entertainment at the White House has always involved egg rolling. Participants roll dyed, hard-boiled eggs across...
Music has been an essential part of life in the White House from the earliest days of our nation, not...
President Taft, a frequent theater goer, was seated in his box at the National Theatre with his aide Archibald Butt,...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.1 An...