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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
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
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
Walker’s Point: A Visit to the Maine Retreat of President George H. W. Bush, Hugh S. Sidey


THOMAS JEFFERSON’S WHITE HOUSE

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
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"

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 JAMES BUCHANAN WHITE HOUSE

James Buchanan’s White House Hostess: The Celebrated Harriet, Lane Pamela Kilian
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 White House Collection: The Beaux Arts Furnishings of 1902, Betty C. Monkman


THE GOLD SPOON SPEECH OF 1840

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


PLANS AND SCHEMES

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 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
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

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 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

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


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
Commentary: The Washington of Paul Jennings, White House Slave, Free Man, and Conspirator for Freedom, G. Franklin Edwards and Michael R. Winston


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