The White House and Space Exploration
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
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Chinese State Visits
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....
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The White House and Western Expansion
LESSON PLANJefferson's MuseumVery little was known about the land west of the Mississippi River when Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) became the...
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Blair House Fact Sheet
When was Blair House built?Blair House was built in 1824 for Dr. Joseph Lovell, a United States Army Surgeon General,...
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Sharing White House History: Andrew Jackson through James Buchanan
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A Mirror on America
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Bio Margaret Taylor
Margaret “Peggy” Smith was born in Calvert County, Maryland, on September 21, 1788 to Ann Mackall and Walter Smith, a major in the...
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Bio William McKinley
At the 1896 Republican convention, in time of depression, the wealthy Cleveland businessman Marcus Alonzo Hanna ensured the nomination of his...
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Bio Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore became president upon the death of Zachary Taylor in July 1850. Born in upstate Cayuga County, New York on...
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Bio Abigail Powers Fillmore
Abigail Powers was born in Saratoga County, New York, on March 13, 1798, while it was still a frontier out-post. Her father,...
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Bio Herbert Hoover
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and...
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Bio Grover Cleveland
The first Democrat elected after the Civil War, Grover Cleveland was the only president to leave the White House and th...