When bulldozers began to tear down the East Wing of the White House this week to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom, historians raised alarms that important American ...

American presidents have a significant place in U.S. history books for their many accomplishments and follies. But behind ...

WASHINGTON – Betty Ford reportedly said that if the White House West Wing is the “mind” of the nation, then the East Wing – the traditional power center for first ladies – is the “heart.” That “heart” ...

Inauguration Day is the initial platform for new first ladies to display their style, and recent decades have seen more ...

CANTON, Ohio – On the eve of her husband’s inauguration, Julia Grant wrote to her childhood family’s former slave, Kitty, and invited her for a visit to the White House. “Tell the girls for me it is a ...

CANTON − The new "Eras" exhibit at the National First Ladies Library & Museum has both style and substance. Influenced by visual elements of pop star Taylor Swift's record-setting "Eras" tour of ...

AMES, Iowa – First ladies are often defined by the causes they champion, but they also play a vital role the public rarely sees, says Stacy Cordery, an expert on first families and a professor of ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- John Hutton starts every White House portrait with an egg-shaped frame. He adds a nose, mouth, eyes and eyebrows, then outlines the face, guided by a series of horizontal and ...

John Hutton starts every White House portrait with an egg-shaped frame. He adds a nose, mouth, eyes and eyebrows, then outlines the face, guided by a series of horizontal and vertical lines through ...

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, has established another precedent at the White House by calling press conferences weekly with women correspondents of the country. These conferences ...