The “American Resolve” Behind the Scenes
On the morning of September 12, 2001, hundreds of men and women showed their badges at the White House gates as they...
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On the morning of September 12, 2001, hundreds of men and women showed their badges at the White House gates as they...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Upstairs at the White House with Tricia Nixon, a historic White House television...
Since the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the public struggle for women’s rights and gender equality has unfolded for more th...
In the center of Washington, D.C, there is a seven-acre public park enclosed by H Street NW (north), Madison...
On April 29, 1922, a group of protestors arrived in Washington, D.C. and began a daily picket in front of the...
Today, Inauguration Day falls on an exact day and time—January 20 at noon. Every four years, either the president or th...
After the 1964 electoral landslide, President Lyndon Johnson’s political position changed considerably. With a larger liberal majority in both houses of...
Further pursuing our interest in the neighborhood context of the White House, as well as the presidential complex itself, this...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and activist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.1 An...
The People's House: Although John Adams was the first to occupy the Executive Mansion in November 1800, it was Thomas Jefferson...
Six hundred invited guests attended the funeral of President Lincoln, felled by the assassin John Wilkes Booth. The East Room...
White House workers’ memoirs abound with recollections of significant international and national events and episodes. As they go about their da...