Princess Alice: The Irrepressible Miss Roosevelt
bySecond only to her father, Theodore Roosevelt, of this time period, no one represented Washington D.C. and the White House more than Alice. It…
January, 2009
The Care and Feeding of the First Family
byAs “First Family,” the President, his wife and children, and any other dependents, had their needs and cares were catered to by a bevy…
Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy
byFrom the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed…