Charles Dickens didn’t think much of American slavery on his first visit in 1842. But he loved Boston enough to return after...
By the summer of 1950, the White House was a shell. President Harry Truman and his family had been evicted from their...
Imagine the White House today with a sunken living room, Danish modern furniture and plywood paneling. The historic old building might have...
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
In January of 1856, a radical physician from Massachusetts, Charles Robinson, won election as governor of Kansas. President Franklin Pierce declared him...
When First Lady Jackie Kennedy visited England in 1961, society photographer Cecil Beaton met her at a dinner party. In his journal...