Every day, President Obama reads ten letters from American citizens. Eli Saslow of the Washington Post looks at the personal stories behind these letters and the correspondence between a president and the people he governs. A book signing follows...

Mark Stein discusses and sign his new book "How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines."

In 2010, the White House Historical Association assumed management of the historic Decatur House on Lafayette Square. Plans call for the property to be reestablished as...

No President ever faced a more severe Constitutional crisis-or tested the limits of the Constitution more daringly-than did Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln re-interpreted the rule of law and expanded the power of the presidency....

In To Free a Family, Professor Sydney Nathans uses an extraordinary collection of letters and diaries to tell the story of Mary Walker, who fled her owner for refuge in the north in 1848, and who spent the next seventeen years trying to recover...

Newly re-published by Max Byrd, First of Hearts: Selected Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, tells stories of entertaining in a magnificent Washington house, later to become the Hay-Adams hotel. Here Clover Adams, wife of Henry Adams, (grandson of John...

Flashpoint Gallery is partnering with Solas Nua to present Tickling the Ivories by Irish contemporary artist Aoife Collins. Collins’ works blur the line between high and low culture, reflecting a fascination with how history, social mores...

For years, bestselling author and Kennedy expert, Chris Matthews has been collecting first-person accounts from those who knew Jack Kennedy and were there with JFK in real time. In his book, Jack Kennedy, Elusive Hero Matthews has woven those...

First published 400 years ago, the King James Bible is a landmark both of biblical translation and the English language. British author ADAM NICOLSON, for an article in the December 2011 National Geographic, traveled from this Bible’s...