“The President’s Walk” Was Almost Reagan’s Last
This is a guest post by Angela Harrison Eng The Washington Hilton Hotel is located at 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW, near DuPont Circle. At a glance, the hotel is one of many in a sea of urban buildings. Yet in...
Aerial View of Franklin Roosevelt’s First Inauguration
Check out this amazing old photo of FDR’s inauguration and then compare it to this one of Eisenhower and this of Obama. Source: dullshick
Which President Got a Speeding Ticket on a Horse?
Ulysses Grant was arrested for directing by William West, an African-American metropolitan policeman. This is a great historical story.
1901 Film of President McKinley and Parade Going to Capitol
What a cool video! This was a find on the Library of Congress website. Below is the description from the site. “This most excellent picture was secured at the junction of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street. The parade is headed...
Federal Agencies Shutdown; Workers Go Home … in 1995
Welcome to Groundhog Day! We’ve been through this before and it didn’t work out well for one of the sides. Plus, they even based an episode of the West Wing on what happened. Who plays Ted Cruz when this shutdown...
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Abraham Lincoln was sworn in for his second term as president and delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. There are a couple interesting things we picked out of this photo. First, when you click on the photo...
Three Stories From the Mayflower Hotel in D.C.
Source: Library of Congress The “Grande Dame of Washington” has seen so much history that it’s difficult to do a post listing just three bit of trivia. Nevertheless, the building that has seen guests like Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, John...
Christmas Letter From Governor Clinton to President Reagan
This is an interesting image of a letter that we dug up at the National Archives. Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas at the time it was sent around Christmas, 1988. Source: U.S. National Archives
For President, Abram Lincoln. For Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin
Now this is an amazing piece of American history. This is a large campaign banner for Lincoln in 1860. Source: Library of Congress
The Clintons Practice Throwing the First Pitch
What an awesome candid shot of Bill and Hillary Clinton throwing a baseball in the Rose Garden on April 3rd, 1994. They’re practicing for the Opening Day ceremonies they were going to participate in that year. Source: The National Archives