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The White House Behind the Scenes
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Wine and the White House
Featuring Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., Chairman of the White House Historical Association
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2023 Presidential Sites Summit Schedule
Monday, September 25 12:00pm: Registration at the Mayflower Hotel 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: White House Reception Please join us for a White House Reception hosted by Dr. Biden. Introduction: John F.W. Rogers, Chairman, White House Historical Association Board of DirectorsRemarks: Dr. Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States Shuttles will depart the Mayflower Hotel at 2:30 pm. Following the reception, the shuttles wi
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2023 National History Day Resources
The White House Historical Association (WHHA) offers many different resources for students working on National History Day projects.
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Chris Cummings
Chris Cummings is the founder and CEO of ICONIC, the largest digital art platform for museums and cultural institutions around the world. ICONIC is a recipient of the United Nations World Summit Award for innovation in Culture and Tourism. With the recent ground-breaking launch of ICONIC’s Jackson Pollock “Beyond the Edge” campaign, nearly $500,000 was raised in less than three hours
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Nik Honeysett
Nik Honeysett has thirty years of experience in management, administration, information technology, and strategy in the cultural sector. Before joining BPOC as CEO, he was head of administration for the J. Paul Getty Museum, where he additionally led their digital transformation and engagement efforts. Before this role, he led the Getty’s Web Group, responsible for all aspects of the ma
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Stewart D. McLaurin
Stewart D. McLaurin serves as president of the White House Historical Association, founded by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy more than sixty years ago to share and preserve the rich history of the White House. In his nine years as leader of the private nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, Stewart has expanded the Association’s cultural and educational programming through award-winning books, popular vi
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Fionnghuala (“Fig”) O’Reilly
Fionnghuala (“Fig”) O’Reilly is an actress and TV correspondent for the award-winning and Daytime Emmy-nominated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) television series, Mission Unstoppable. The show airs weekly nationwide on Saturday mornings on CBS. In 2019, Fig, who is Irish and American, made history as the first woman of color and first Black woman to represent Ireland at an intern
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Nancy Kegan Smith
Nancy Kegan Smith is the retired director of the Presidential Materials Division at the National Archives and Records Administration. Ms. Smith started her career in 1973 as an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, and retired in 2012 as director of the Presidential Materials Division in Washington, D.C., the division at National Archives and Records Administration
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Sara Kanawati Stephany
Sara Kanawati Stephany is the co-chair of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library New Frontier Network—a cohort of young leaders engaging new generations in the late president’s legacy of service. She works as a communications and public affairs strategist for leading organizations in the healthcare, technology, and human service sectors. A naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria, Kanawati Step
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Kellee Wicker
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An interview with Allida M. Black
To enhance First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" newspaper columns, Allida M. Black, Director and Editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers and Research Professor of History & International Affairs at The George Washington University, sat down for an interview covering topics from the Roosevelt's style of entertaining to what the White House was like during World War II.