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Press Release
Annual Holiday Book Festival on December 1st
The White House Historical Association published its first book, The White House: An Historic Guide, in 1962. It was the wish of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy that such a book be written, and she participated actively in the editing. For more than sixty years, the Association has continued to produce award-winning books on a wide range of subjects related to the
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Press Release
“The White House and the Sea” NEW ISSUE of White House History Quarterly
The White House Historical Association today released the 71st issue of its award-winning magazine, White House History Quarterly, “The White House and the Sea.” With this issue of the Quarterly we follow America’s presidents to sea, where so many chapters of White House history have been written. The presidents have sought peace at sea, relaxed, dined, and celebrated at sea, a
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Press Release
WINE AND THE WHITE HOUSE: A History
Praise for WINE AND THE WHITE HOUSE: “The Washington Post publisher tells a comprehensive story of the American presidents through the grapes and glasses they drank from.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, New & Noteworthy “. . . lavishly illustrated and strictly bipartisan . . . the book delves widely . . . into how presidents have chosen to highlight ceremonies, foster diplomacy, and heavily promote the American wine industry
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Employment
Director of Digital Outreach
The White House Historical Association is seeking a Director of Digital Outreach. The Director will develop, plan, and implement a comprehensive digital strategy to engage new audiences, supporters, stakeholders, and the public with all educational facets of the White House Historical Association and The People’s House: A White House Experience. This position reports to the Vice President of Marketing, Co
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Educational Resource
The White House as Home and Symbol
Although today's mailboxes are filled with magazines, catalogs, and bills, they lack an abundance of personal letters. The technologies of the electronic age allow people to communicate quickly and efficiently without ever having to pick up a pen. Up-to-the-minute reports via telephone, television, radio, and the Internet allow us to be informed of events as quickly as they happen. In
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Educational Resource
Using Art to Study the Past
When studying events that occurred before the widespread use of photography, historians have used artwork to supplement resources such as documents, diaries, and artifacts. While an artist's view of an event is less accurate than first-hand written accounts, many paintings and engravings can tell us what events were found important enough to document in this way. Artists, after all, were
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Event
History Happy Hour: The 1972 Opening of the Blue Room
On May 15, 1972, First Lady Patricia Nixon unveiled the newly refurbished Blue Room. Mrs. Nixon’s efforts to restore the Blue Room to its French Empire style, drew its inspiration from the Bellangé suite of furniture purchased by President James Monroe for the room in 1817. The unveiling of the Blue Room provided Mrs. Nixon the opportunity to demonstrate her successful expansion of
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Online Class with Roundtable: The White House - Home, Office, Museum
What is the history of the White House and how has it evolved over the past two centuries? Find out in this Roundtable course led by Matthew Costello, Vice President of the David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History and Senior Historian for the White House Historical Association. This course explores the history of the White House in
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