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The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
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The young national capital at Washington, D.C. became the epicenter of The War of 1812 with Great Britain during the...
October 6, 1979 - Pope John Paul II: Pope John Paul arrives at 1:43 p.m. in an open-topped limousine. He smiled and...
TEACHER'S TEXTThe Cold War witnessed the United States and the Soviet Union competing to dominate outer space with the same...
During the Lincoln Administration some of Buchanan’s British-born domestic staff remained and other workers were brought from Illinois. There we...
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....
When the White House gates open at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 13th, thousands of people will stream through for the...
Further pursuing our interest in the neighborhood context of the White House, as well as the presidential complex itself, this...
White House workers’ memoirs abound with recollections of significant international and national events and episodes. As they go about their da...
The People's House: Thomas Jefferson began the tradition of a public reception to celebrate the Fourth of July in 1801. The...
In President Theodore Roosevelt’s description of the capture of the HMS Macedonian by the USS United States in his 1882 bo...
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...