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With the White House, the visit to the president’s neighborhood begins. It is one of the most historic neighborhoods in the nation. Vigorous life has gone on here for two centuries, warmed by the proximity to the great power represented in the White House. Introduced by historian William Seale and narrated with the words of…
Collection 2 contains reprints of the second six issues of White House History including: President Adams Moves In (Issue 7), Plans and Schemes (Issue 8), Documenting the White House (Issue 9), The Speech of Mr. Ogle (Issue 10), The Roosevelt Restoration of 1902 (Issue 11), In James Buchanan’s Time (Issue 12). Indexed. For more information…
Collection 3 contains full-color reprints of six issues of White House History, including: The Kennedy White House (Issues 13-14), Presidential Inaugurations (Issue 15), Presidential Portraiture (Issue 16), Thomas Jefferson’s White House (Issue 17), Presidential Retreats (Issue 18). Indexed. For more information about our publications, please contact [email protected]. SEE INSIDE: Issue 16, Presidential Portraiture Issue 15,…
Collection 4 contains full-color reprints of thirty-nine articles from seven issues of White House History: Presidential Horses (Issue 19), White House Kitchens and Cooking (Issue 20), President Eisenhower’s White House (Issue 21), James Hoban (Issue 22), White House Flowers (Issue 23), Life in the Lincoln White House (Issues 24 and 25). Indexed. For more information…
Death comes to the White House, as to every home in the nation. But Americans share no greater shock than the death of a president. In this issue we examine in detail the circumstances and mourning rituals surrounding the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841 and those of seven sitting presidents who followed:…
The Oval Office is located in the West Wing of the White House. Here the incumbent president meets with dignitaries and his closest staff members, appears for televised addresses to the public, and carries out daily tasks. Although the decor in the Oval Office may vary from one administration to the next, the flags behind…
White House History presents in this issue a series of stories of presidential kin, beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s mother, the indomitable Sara Delano Roosevelt, and moving back in time to G.W.P. Custis, Martha Washington’s grandson, who promoted himself with gusto as Washington’s adopted grandson, building the mansion at Arlington, over looking Washington City,…
Something of Splendor, written by White House curators William Allman and Melissa Naulin, highlights objects from the 2011–2012 exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. The exhibition and catalog marked the association s 50th anniversary. For more information about our publications, please contact [email protected].
The South Portico of the White House was constructed by architect James Hoban in 1824 during the Monroe administration. President Truman added a balcony (henceforth dubbed the Truman Balcony) to the second floor in 1948.
This compelling book presented in two elegant volumes chronicles both the unique continuum of the White House through American history and the human story of the White House as home to the presidents and their families. From President George Washington through President George H. W. Bush, the reader experiences the many colorful facets of life…
The preoccupation of those who occupied the White House for most of the nineteenth century was settlement of the West. Like most Americans, presidents by the 1840s saw the West as a place of romance, distant, impossibly different, a resource to exploit. Kit Carson, Seth Eastman and other rugged pioneers came to the East Room…
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