Collection The 2016 White House Christmas Ornament
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
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Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
Biographies & Portraits
Biographies & Portraits
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...