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
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the only army general elected president in the twentieth century. His achievements were many — he was an...
The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
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...
"Largely through television," notes historian William Seale, the White House "is the best known house in the world, the instantly...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...
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...