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...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
Beginning with James Buchanan’s administration in the 1850s, black entertainers have held a prime spot among White House performers. Th...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
President John Adams first occupied the President's House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it...
The first bath tubs in the White House were portable and made of tin; water was hauled in buckets. Running...
In 1791, working with George Washington, artist and engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant prepared a city plan for Washington, D.C., reserving...
Care of any museum collection includes the conservation of objects to correct or stabilize deterioration from age or exhibition. Although...
In our own time thoughts about “the West” have been rather vividly colored by popular culture imagery depicting the rugged indi...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, some people believed that the automobile was a toy for the rich that...