"He Stands for All the Fallen"
“Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some...
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“Quentin’s mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some...
The annual White House Easter egg roll was a well-established tradition when President Herbert Hoover took office, and the Hoovers...
The first known image of the White House was a daguerreotype taken in 1846, during the administration of President James K....
In May 1865, at the close of hostilities, a Grand Review throughout Washington, D.C., exhibited parading Union troops from the...
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
At eight o’clock on the morning of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith “threw responsibilities to the wind...
Throughout the history of the United States, all the nation’s presidents have been Christians.1 In modern times, to celebrate th...
The morning of Monday, March 5, 1877 was cold and overcast as Americans anticipated the Inauguration of Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes...
Today, Inauguration Day falls on an exact day and time—January 20 at noon. Every four years, either the president or th...
Today, Lafayette Park sits just north of the White House, enclosed by H Street NW (north), Madison Place (east), Pennsylvania...
After the 1964 electoral landslide, President Lyndon Johnson’s political position changed considerably. With a larger liberal majority in both houses of...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.1 An...