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Today the White House Historical Association releases a special 26th edition of The White House: An Historic Guide, which is available at whitehousehistory.org and offers an intimate room-by-room tour of the interior of the house, with new photographs and content. The release of this edition coincides with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s birthday on July 28th and will feature ne
The White House Historical Association is celebrating Christmas in July and the Official 2022 White House Christmas Ornament, which represents the cherished tradition of displaying a gingerbread house in the White House each holiday. The 2022 Ornament also commemorates the first time a gingerbread house was displayed in the State Dining Room by First Lady Pat Nixon in 1969. This month, brand new
Today the White House Historical Association’s, The White House: An Historic Guide, is available for pre-sale at whitehousehistory.org. Since 1962, the White House’s celebrated spaces and rich history have been portrayed for the public in a continually updated guidebook, The White House: An Historic Guide. The guidebook marked the beginning of White House history as a unique field of s
The White House Historical Association has announced a new virtual fashion exhibit exploring overlooked designers and seamstresses for first ladies: “Glamour and Innovation: The Women Behind the Seams of Fashion at the White House.” The exhibit is the result of an inaugural academic partnership with New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The partnership with NYU be
The White House Historical Association, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, hosted its annual day-long educational symposium Thursday, May 26, 2022, 8AM-4:30PM at the historic Decatur House located at 748 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC. This year’s program, themed "The Presidency and Historic Preservation,” included panel discussions on the topics of “Women in Historic Preservation,” “Presidential Sites of Enslavemen
The White House Historical Association released a new episode of the 1600 Sessions podcast today, “James Hoban: The Charleston Years,” which ponders hints and clues of the formative years of the ambitious young Irishman, who designed and built the White House. In this episode, President of the White House Historical Association Stewart McLaurin and historic preservationist and White House Historical Association Next
The White House Historical Association, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will host its annual day-long educational symposium, this year themed, "The Presidency and Historic Preservation,” which will include four panel discussions with White House staff, historians/experts from museums, presidential sites and historical associations. Topics will include: “Women in Historic Preservation,” “Presidential Sites of Enslavement,” “Preserving Presidential
A generous donor will give copies of the White House Historical Association's children's book, Gigi at the White House!, to the more than 1,900 elementary schools that have received grants from the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries since its inception in 2002, the George W. Bush Institute announced on Sunday, May 15. The new edition of the Association's children's book features a
The White House Historical Association has announced that two of its 2021 titles, Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration and Its Legacy, and James Hoban: Designer and Builder of the White House, have recently been honored with a host of respected industry awards, including the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards and the Independent Publisher Book Awards, known as the IPPYs. "Our
