Frederick Douglass
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
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The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
In 1791, working with George Washington, artist and engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant prepared a city plan for Washington, D.C., reserving...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
The first bath tubs in the White House were portable and made of tin; water was hauled in buckets. Running...
President John Adams first occupied the President's House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it...
Beginning with James Buchanan’s administration in the 1850s, black entertainers have held a prime spot among White House performers. Th...
The hot Florida sun beat down on a crowd gathered at Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969. As the Apollo 11 mission blasted...
President Millard Fillmore and his family were particularly musical. Mrs. Fillmore, the former Abigail Powers, made certain the White House...