Living Quarters on the Ground Floor
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
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White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
Before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building was built during 1922-25, a simple three-and-a-half story brick home stood in...
Civil Rights activist and journalist William Monroe Trotter caused a stir in 1914 because he strongly protested President Woodrow Wilson’s su...
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia Browning Tanner purchased her freedom with $1400 she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
During his tenure in office President Nixon steered a middle course in domestic affairs and did not attempt to dismantle...
Paul Jennings, who was born a slave on President James Madison’s estate at Montpelier in 1799, was a "body servant" wh...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...