WHITE HOUSE FLOWERS: EMBELLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S TABLE First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt’s “Colonial Garden” at the White House, Mac Keith Griswold James Monroe’s White House Plateau: “A perfect riot of festooned railings and graceful figures,” Melissa Naulin Flowers for the President’s Table: State Dining Room Splendor, Nancy Clarke White House Brides and Envisioned Flowers: Two Nineteenth-Century White House Weddings, With an Album of other White House Brides, Margaret Huddy [PDF] “The Most Beautiful Things”: Gifts from France in the Roosevelt White House, Amy Verone

JAMES HOBAN: ARCHITECT OF THE WHITE HOUSE Imagining James Hoban, William Bushong [PDF] White House Irish Counterparts, Desmond Guinness The Second City in British Dominions: Dublin in the Later Eighteenth Century, Holger Hoock George Washington's Bow Window, Edward Lawler Jr. James Hoban: Builder of the White House, William Seale Four Places in Dublin, photography by Bruce White

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S WHITE HOUSE Dwight David Eisenhower: The First Television President, Martha Joynt Kumar “She’s Making Maturity Glamorous”: Mamie Eisenhower's White House Style, Edith Mayo President Eisenhower: Painter, Sister Wendy Beckett [PDF] The Eisenhower Family Home in Abilene, Kansas, Dennis Medina “Proud Housewife”: Mamie Eisenhower Collects for the White House, Melissa Naulin “In the Goodness of Time”: Creating the Dwight David Eisenhower Room at Blair House, Candace S. Shireman Discovered: An Unknown Portrait of President James K. Polk and Members of His Cabinet, Clifford Krainik

WHITE HOUSE KITCHENS & COOKING Kitchen Past: Thoughts on Open Hearth Cooking for the Presidents, Alice Ross A Look at the White House Kitchens, Lydia Barker Tederick [PDF] My White House Years, Roland Mesnier Preparation of the Menu for the Prince of Wales Dinner in 2005, Cristeta Comerford White House Wines, Daniel Shanks Home Cooking in the White House, Barbara Haber A Bit of Architectural History Comes In from the Cold, William G. Allman

PRESIDENTIAL HORSES Presidents as Horsemen, William B. Bushong Arlington’s Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House, Claire A. Faulkner [PDF] Andrew Jackson’s Constitution Carriage, Marsha Mullin Ten Notable Horses, Gwendolyn K. White

AWAY FROM THE GLARE: PRESIDENTIAL RETREATS The Private Villa Retreat of Thomas Jefferson, Travis McDonald The Soldiers’ Home: First Presidential Retreat, William Seale The New Deal and the Catoctin Presidential Camps, Barbara Kirkconnell Truman Beach: The 33rd President at Key West, Larry Lauder Knutson [PDF] Walker’s Point: A Visit to the Maine Retreat of President George H. W. Bush, Hugh S. Sidey

THOMAS JEFFERSON’S WHITE HOUSE “A Well-Ordered Household”: Domestic Servants in Jefferson’s White House, Lucia Stanton [PDF] Jefferson’s White House Dinner Guests, Charles T. Cullen The Adena Dumbwaiters: A Glimpse into Jefferson’s Executive Mansion, Stewart D. Hobbs New Wine in an Old Bottle 2006: Changes Inside the White House with photography by Peter Vitale

PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITURE Portraits Made at the White House, William Seale Face the Lens, Mr. President: A Gallery of Photographic Portraits of 19th-Century U.S. Presidents, Clifford Krainik [PDF] The Greatest Man Living, William Kloss Artists’ Life Studies for White House Portraits, Lydia Barker Tederick Drawing Presidents: An Artist’s Reflections on Catching a Lively Likeness, John Hutton Conversation with a Presidential Portraitist: Simmie Knox Paints President and Mrs. Clinton, Betty C. Monkman

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS Taking the Oath of Office: The Capitol Connection, Donald R. Kennon “Not a Ragged Mob”: The Inauguration of 1829s, David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler [PDF] Afternoon Accolades: A Cultural History of White House Inaugural Reviewing Stands, James M. Goode Presidential Inaugurations: Solemnities and Festivities, Paul F. Boller Jr. Inaugural Balls: From Their Beginnings, Katie E. Marages Inaugural Planning: Minutes from the 1960–61 Inaugural Committee

THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, PART TWO : "LEGACY" Circa 1961: The Kennedy White House Interiors, Elaine Rice Bachmann [PDF] The Historic Guide to America’s House Major Publications of the White House Historical Association A New Look at the John F. Kennedys and the Arts, Elise K. Kirk A Small Slice of Kennedy Decor: The Queens’ Sitting Room, William G. Allman

THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, PART ONE : "RECOLLECTIONS" Editing the First Lady: Life Magazine Goes to the White House, Hugh Sidey Remembering the Glorious Kennedy Times, Letitia Baldrige The Rescue and Renaissance of Lafayette Square, John Carl Warnecke The Correspondence of David E. Finley and Jacqueline Kennedy, William B. Bushong [PDF]

THE JAMES BUCHANAN WHITE HOUSE James Buchanan’s White House Hostess: The Celebrated Harriet, Lane Pamela Kilian Guests of the Nation: The Japanese Delegation to the Buchanan White House, Dallas Finn [PDF] The USRMCS Harriet Lane, Robert L. Anderson President Buchanan Greets a Guest of State: The Prince of Wales at the White House, Claire A. Faulkner The White House Collection: From James Buchanan’s Time, William G. Allman

THE ROOSEVELT RENOVATION OF 1902 The White House in the Monumental City, Antoinette J. Lee Glenn Brown, the White House, and the Urban Renaissance of Washington, D.C., William B. Bushong Theodore Roosevelt’s White House, William Seale The Executive Offices 100 Years Ago: A Photographic Essay, Lydia Tederick The “Eye of Guardianship:” President Theodore Roosevelt and the American Institute of Architects, Tony P. Wrenn [PDF] The White House Collection: The Beaux Arts Furnishings of 1902, Betty C. Monkman

THE GOLD SPOON SPEECH OF 1840 About the Gold Spoon Oration, William Seale [PDF] Imagery from the Election of 1840: Myth and Reality, Clifford Krainik The White House Collection: Those Princely Objects in Charles Ogle’s Speech, William G. Allman A Letter from Home: Martha Custis Peter to Martha Custis Williams, Tudor Place February 13, 1841, Wendy Kail Speech of Mr. Ogle, of Pennsylvania, on The Regal Splendor of the President’s Palace

DOCUMENTING THE WHITE HOUSE Making the Most of the Archives: Finding White House Documentary Sources at the National Archives, Alysha E. Black Visual Documents: Symbolic and Real Images of the White House, Alan Fern Photographing White House Furnishings, Bruce White The White House Collection: Research Sources in the Office of the Curator, Betty C. Monkman [PDF]

PLANS AND SCHEMES Benjamin Brown French in the Lincoln Period, Michael Spangler [PDF] A Glimpse of Calvin Coolidge’s White House: The Photographs of Ralph Waldo Magee, Lydia Barker Tederick Benjamin Latrobe and Thomas Jefferson Redesign the President’s House, Michael Fazio and Patrick Snadon Visiting Ireland’s Leinster House: Model for the White House, Elizabeth B. Goldsmith The 21st Century White House, James I. McDaniel and Ann Bowman Smith

PRESIDENT ADAMS MOVES IN The Paradox of High Station: Abigail Adams as First Lady, Edith B. Gelles The Midnight Appointments, Richard A. Samuelson [PDF] The White House in John Adams’s Presidency, William Seale John Adams: Farmer and Gardener, Corliss Knapp Engle A Classical Turn: Fashion in the Time of President John Adams, Lynne Zacek Bassett The White House Collection: John and Abigail Adams: A Tradition Begins, Betty C. Monkman

GEORGE WASHINGTON: HOUSES AND PALACES Washington’s City, John Rhodehamel Rules of Engagement: Ceremony and the First Presidential Household, John Riley Where the Chief Was Never Hailed: Rivals to the White House in 18th-Century New York and Philadelphia, William Seale [PDF] Memory, Architecture, and the Future: Robert F. Dalzell Jr. George Washington, Mount Vernon, and the White House, Lee Baldwin Dalzell “The Best Friend I Had on Earth”: William Thornton’s “Great Patron,” George Washington, C. M. Harris Trouble in the Federal City, Dorothy Twohig The White House Collection: George Washington: Influences and Images, Betty C. Monkman

THE TRUMAN RENOVATION Reality and Illusion: The White House and Harry S. Truman, William P. O’Brien [PDF] Tempest in a Teapot: Truman’s Failed Attempt at an Office Addition, Elizabeth Beard Goldsmith Lorenzo Simmons Winslow: Architect of the White House, 1933–1952, William B. Bushong Pictures of the Operation: Abbie Rowe Photographs, the White House Renovation, Clay Bauske President Truman’s Televised Tour, Rex W. Scouten To Own a Piece of the White House: The Souvenir Program of the Truman Renovation, William G. Allman The White House Collection: The Truman Interiors, Betty C. Monkman

THE BURNING OF THE WHITE HOUSE IN 1814 The Burning of Washington, Anthony S. Pitch [PDF] The White House Before the Fire, William Seale Ruin and Regeneration, William B. Bushong The White House Collection: Reminders of 1814, Betty C. Monkman Dolley Madison Has the Last Word:The Famous Letter, David B. Mattern In a Nantucket Graveyard, Neil W. Horstman A Satirical View: Politics in Rhyme,  Mary A. Hackett Eyewitness Accounts of the Burning of the White House: They Were There

THE WHITE HOUSE STONE White House Album: Beauty and History Preserved in Stone, William Seale [PDF] The Stonemasons Who Built the White House, William Seale The Quarries at Aquia and Seneca, Gary Scott Restoring the Original White House Stone, Patrick J. Plunkett The Politics of Public Building: William Thornton and President’s Square, C.M. Harris The White House Collection: Recent Acquisitions, Betty C. Monkman

THE DESIGN OF LAFAYETTE PARK The Design of Lafayette Park, William Seale Presidents and the Potomac, Gilbert Gude A “Dark Horse” in Sunlight and Shadow: Daguerreotypes of President James Polk, Clifford Krainik White House Album: The Theodore Roosevelt Years, James M. Goode The White House Collection: James Buchanan’s White House, Betty C. Monkman [PDF]

PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S ROSE GARDEN President Kennedy’s Rose Garden, Rachel Lambert Mellon White House Album: History in the Camera’s Eye, Oliver Jensen The Association’s Twentieth Year, Nash Castro History in White House Silver, Joseph D. Carr Stone Walls Preserved, James I. McDaniel Documents: A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings [PDF] Commentary: The Washington of Paul Jennings, White House Slave, Free Man, and Conspirator for Freedom, G. Franklin Edwards and Michael R. Winston [PDF]