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Take a look at this footage from the first and only White House fashion show on February 29, 1968. This glamourous event celebrated American fashion and design, but also promoted tourism and industry. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson praised the governor’s wives in attendance for their hospitality and introducing her to the wonders of their state. Bonus: See if you can sp
Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of "Red, White and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style," discusses the first—and only—fashion show ever held in the White House, hosted by Lady Bird Johnson on February 29, 1968. Using eyewitness accounts as well as carefully preserved records, artifacts, garments, and images, the book takes readers behi
Our 2022 symposium, The Presidency and Historic Preservation, was a day-long event hosted by the White House Historical Association in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This symposium featured prominent scholars, historians, preservationists, and professionals who discussed preserving presidential sites; women in historic preservation; presidential sites of enslavement; and preservation of the White House. This video is the morning
Our 2022 symposium, The Presidency and Historic Preservation, was a day-long event hosted by the White House Historical Association in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This symposium featured prominent scholars, historians, preservationists, and professionals who discussed preserving presidential sites; women in historic preservation; presidential sites of enslavement; and preservation of the White House. This video is the morning
On November 21, 1800, First Lady Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her daughter describing the White House landscape. 'It is a beautiful spot, capable of improvement, and the more I view it, the more I am delighted with it.' The grounds surrounding the house were in fact yet to be landscaped and remained a muddy construction site. Incredibly, the first
Join historian and Pat Nixon biographer Heath Lee and former Nixon White House staffer Barbara Franklin as they discuss the evolving role of women in public service. The conversation will focus on the Nixon initiative to bring more women into leadership roles in the federal government, including the influential roles that Pat Nixon and other prominent women played to promote
A history of the American presidents in song. Lyrics and musical adaptation by Genevieve Ryan Bellaire.
Historian Jon White discusses his recent book, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House, which details how President Abraham Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White House during America’s most divided and war-torn era. White will discuss why Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the
The 2022 Presidential Sites Summit was hosted by the White House Historical Association at the historic Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The Summit incorporated sessions on a variety of topics from fundraising and civic engagement to recognizing inclusive presidential histories. This video includes two such sessions from the afternoon of Thursday, March 17. The first session, Donor Cultivation in a Post-Pandemic Environment,