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White House Historical Association Statement on November 15, 2016 Event with First Lady Michelle Obama
The White House Historical Association was honored to host First Lady Michelle Obama for an evening celebrating her collaboration with the Association over the past eight years and her leadership of four key initiatives: Let’s Move!, Joining Forces, Let Girls Learn, and Reach Higher. Guests in attendance at the Association’s historic Decatur House on Lafayette Square were privileged to h
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Holiday Book Fair
The White House Historical Association is pleased to announce its upcoming Holiday Book Fair, a full day of holiday shopping and festivities with 18 authors available to sign copies of their award-winning books. Books will be available for purchase during the event, in addition to our full range of White House-inspired gifts. Since 1962, the White House Historical Association has published books
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The Presidency and Historic Preservation Symposium
Our 2022 symposium, The Presidency and Historic Preservation, will be a day-long event hosted by the White House Historical Association in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This symposium will feature prominent scholars, historians, preservationists, and professionals who will discuss preserving presidential sites; women in historic preservation; presidential sites of enslavement; and preservation of the White House. It will
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African Americans and the White House
Lesson Plan: Slavery in the White House When George Washington was president (1789-1797) he lived in New York and Philadelphia. He brought cooks, maids and coachmen from Mount Vernon — all of them slaves — to work at his house alongside white servants. The presidents in the early days were expected to hire and pay for their own staff. Since many of the
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John F. Kennedy and the Space Race
At the time, John F. Kennedy was serving as a United States senator from Massachusetts, and the events that were about to unfold would require the thinking and leadership of the nation’s president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Yet the effects of those events would eventually come to bear on the presidency of John Kennedy. It started with the launching of Sp
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The President's Neighborhood Exhibition
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to have influence—have bought property and built homes and offices along the streets surrounding the White House. For more than two centuries this neighborhood has been the setting for political decision making and diplomacy, for social gatherings and protests, for
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Symposium - Italy in the White House: A Conversation on Historical Perspectives
Long before the emergence of the United States and Italy as nations, close connections between our two peoples influenced political philosophy, architecture, culture, and more. Over time, these links grew in depth and breadth, friendships emerged, cultures intertwined, and many of these elements touched the nation’s capital, the White House, and the lives of American presidents. To chronicle this ex
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Press Release
NEW Research Initiative to Launch During Black History Month: "Slavery in the President's Neighborhood" A Focus on those who Built, Lived, and Worked at the White House
The White House Historical Association is launching “Slavery in the President’s Neighborhood” on February 3, a new ongoing research initiative to tell the stories of the enslaved and free African Americans who built, lived, and worked at the White House and in surrounding homes on Lafayette Park. On its website, the Association will unveil an interactive timeline that traces stories of ens
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NEW Special Episode of The 1600 Sessions “Our Work and Recent Events: A Q&A with David M. Rubenstein”
The White House Historical Association released a special episode of The 1600 Sessions podcast today, “Our Work and Recent Events: A Q&A with David M. Rubenstein.” In this episode, Association President Stewart McLaurin is interviewed by David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of the Carlyle Group and philanthropist. During this interview, the two discuss the work of the Asso
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Honoring the Birthday of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy: A First Lady's Leadership and Legacy
Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein and historian Douglas Brinkley discuss First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's leadership and legacy through historic preservation during and since her historic 1,036 days in the White House. This discussion will detail Mrs. Kennedy’s role in the establishment of the White House Historical Association, preservation of historic Lafayette Square, and other preservation efforts.Event time is eastern standard ti
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White House History Live: Protest at the People’s House
Join us in learning more about White House History right from your own home. Our Facebook Live series, White House History Live, delves into the stories that make up the history of the Executive Mansion.For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise their First Amendment rights and