The Red Room
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
Read Digital Edition Foreword, William SealePresident Grover Cleveland's Goodwill Tour of 1887, John H. White Jr."Off for the Ditch": Theodore...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
Edith Kermit Carow was born on August 6, 1861, in Manhattan, New York. She was the daughter of Charles Carow and Gertrude...
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, age 42, became the youngest president in the nation’s history. He brought ne...
Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the...
“I am naturally the most unambitious of women and life in the White House has no attractions for me.” Mrs. Wils...
The annual White House Easter egg roll was a well-established tradition when President Herbert Hoover took office, and the Hoovers...
The house in which the President of the United States lives has always had a great fascination for American citizens...
Few first ladies have been so attuned to the natural beauty inside and outside the White House as First Lady...