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In 1802, Congress granted the citizenry of the District of Columbia limited local government and James Hoban served on the twelve-member...
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In 1802, Congress granted the citizenry of the District of Columbia limited local government and James Hoban served on the twelve-member...
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
Born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1953, Mr. Smith graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a degree in government....
Death and the President's House, William Seale "First in War, First in Peace," and First in Death: A History of...
Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealePresidents as Horsemen, William B. BushongArlington's Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House, Claire...
January 29, 1979: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was the highest-ranking Chinese visitor to the White House since Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited in 1943....
No sport created more excitement, enthusiasm and interest in the colonial period and the early republic than horse racing. Presidents...
We live in a time filled with skepticism and cynicism β about the motives of elected officials, about the integrity of co...
American presidents throughout history have appreciated the utility and admired the grandeur of the horse. The visual image of the...
Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his first Inaugural Address, βIn your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mi...
Anna Harrison was too ill to travel when her husband set out from Ohio in 1841 for his inauguration. It was...