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The White House Historical Association will host the Presidential Sites Summit August 27-30 at the Willard InterContinental. The 4-day national gathering, themed “Back to the White House,” will draw leaders from more than 100 presidential sites across the country – and from across the spectrum of the historical professions, along with a large gathering of presidential descendants– reconnecting them with the domain that def
The White House Historical Association today released the latest episode of The 1600 Sessions podcast, “America’s Pastime and the Presidency”, exploring the rich relationship between the White House and baseball, and the history of the sport in Washington. This month, the Washington Nationals are hosting the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, a tradition stretching back to Franklin Roosevelt’s first term as
The White House Historical Association today released the latest episode of The 1600 Sessions podcast, “Decatur House, The President’s Neighbor”, exploring the legacy of Naval hero and Commodore Stephen Decatur and the historic Decatur House positioned in the President’s Neighborhood on Lafayette Square and part of Washington, D.C.’s earliest history. This episode was recorded in the parlors of Decatur
The White House Historical Association will host two sessions of its annual White House History Teacher Institute July 16 – 20 and July 23-27. The five-day immersive workshops brings a select group of educators from across the country to Washington to learn about White House history – an experience that includes special site visits, conversations with former White House staffers, lectures from White House hist
The White House Historical Association is pleased announce its new free mobile application for both iOS and Android which offers, for the first time ever, virtual educational tours of the White House and surrounding President’s Neighborhood. The app features three separate tour experiences for in-person visitors and those who want to learn about the White House from afar. The ap
The White House Historical Association today released the latest episode of The 1600 Sessions podcast. In this episode, White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin talks with historian Dr. Ed Lengel and architect Merlo Kelly, curators of a new volume of essays out in 2019 about James Hoban, the Irish architect who designed the White House. Stewart also speaks with Scottish stonemason
Since the creation of the American presidency, the country’s leaders and their families have taken vacations away from the White House. A brief history of summer vacations away from the White House and Memorial Day activities: Summer Vacations During the summers of 1862, 1863, and 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and his family resided at the Soldiers’ Home, approximately three miles north of the
The White House Historical Association is pleased to announce the 12th season of Jazz on Jackson Place, a summer concert series held in the courtyard of its historic Decatur House on Thursdays. The $35 ticketed event includes live music, hors d’oeuvres, and open bar from 6:30 to 8:30PM. Summer Concert Series Schedule: Thursday, June 14: Clarinetist Oran Etkin Voted #1 Rising Star Clarinetist by
The White House Historical Association has just released its newest publication, The Role of the White House Social Secretary: Collected Reflections. The quarterly journal features interviews conducted by Richard Norton Smith with nearly 20 former White House social secretaries dating to Letitia Baldrige of the Kennedy administration with exclusive insights into the dynamic and integral role the social secretary plays in