Collection The White House Social Secretary
For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
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For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in...
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
Biographies & Portraits
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...
For most of the 19th century, the structure of the White House staff remained generally the same. At the top...
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
Two of the youngest presidents to reside in the White House brought their families and a menagerie of pets along...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...