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...
Check out this amazing old photo of FDR's inauguration and then compare it to this one of Eisenhower and this of Obama. Aerial view of U.S. Capitol and crowd on the grounds of...
Notable People & Places, The Best Of / 04.03.2014
Metro Policeman Arrests President Grant for Speeding
This is one of the more interesting personal stories that we've uncovered. For a while now, we've heard stories about President Grant being arrested for riding his horse too fast in the city. This is amusing on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvoiCvJycmc 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...
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...
Historical Events, Notable People & Places / 20.09.2013
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...
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...
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. letter from...
Notable People & Places / 26.06.2013
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. Print shows a large campaign banner for Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running...
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.
This is a great personal story of a behind-the-scenes man. Francis H. Robinson was a long-time chauffeur for the White House, having arrived in Washington back in 1910. Robinson was originally from Massachusetts, born around 1876,...
Here is a nice series of photos of our newest racing president, William Howard Taft. President Taft at the baseball game in...
Here is a very different photo of the "Big Train" in April 1939. He is looking at a box of baseballs, autographed by six presidents. These are baseballs that were thrown out as the first pitch...
Not exactly the most revered or most remembered president, poor Rutherford B. Hayes was zinged by our current president. We'd like to shine a little light on poor Rutherford, even if he didn't think the telephone...