Through enthusiastic and tireless promotion of American fashion designers, Eleanor Lambert elevated the American fashion industry from a rag-trade status to international respectability.
Lambert was a publicity agent who wore trademark...
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Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
What do you do if the girl of your dreams gets married off to a National Guard general who can pay a bigger dowry than you can? If you are Abdullah al-Gilani, you join al-Qaeda. Later you learn that your true love ran away from her husband to...
February 7, 2012 - 6:30pm
$9
Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President
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...
February 8, 2012 - 12:00pm
“How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines”
Mark Stein discusses and sign his new book "How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines."
January 26, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
African-American Life and Labor in the White House Neighborhood
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...
February 27, 2012 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
Free
About Four Honest Outlaws
Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University. Book signing of Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon follows.
January 22, 2012 - 2:00pm
Free
Lincoln and the Constitution
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....
January 26, 2012 - 7:00pm
Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 by Dr. William A. Dobak
The Civil War changed the United States in many ways. The author argues that none was more important than Emancipation and its effects of the war on the United States Army. From 1862 to 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000...
January 25, 2012 - 12:00pm
Free
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker by Sydney Nathans
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...
January 20, 2012 - 12:00pm
Free
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
Historian and journalist Adam Goodheart presents a gripping account of how the Civil War began in his book 1861: The Civil War Awakening. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. The author sees a second American revolution...
January 18, 2012 - 12:00pm
First of Hearts: Selected Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams by Max Byrd
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...
January 17, 2012 - 12:00pm
Woodcarving and Woodcarvers in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Venice
Anne Markham Schulz, professor of art history and architecture, Brown University
Book signing of Woodcarving and Woodcarvers in Venice 1350-1550 follows.
January 15, 2012 - 2:00pm
A Pilot’s Journey by George Norfleet
Author George Norfleet will sign copies of his book “A Pilot’s Journey,” which tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. The book goes beyond the Airmen’s World War II fighter pilot history to reveal who these men, like...
January 5, 2012 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
January 12, 2012 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
January 19, 2012 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
January 26, 2012 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
The White House: The President’s Home in Photographs and History by Vicki Goldberg
From John Adam’s day to the present, the allure of the most famous home in America endures. In her book The White House, acclaimed photography critic Vicki Goldberg presents a fascinating visual history covering every aspect of White House...
December 14, 2011 - 12:00pm
Free
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
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...
December 13, 2011 - 12:00pm
Designs on Film
Take a look behind the scenes of Hollywood’s greatest triumphs with journalist and interior designer Cathy Whitlock. The author of Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction (HarperCollins, 2010) illuminates the often...
December 8, 2011 - 7:00pm
$12 Members; $15 Public Take a look behind the
They Have Killed Papa Dead by Anthony Pitch
Author Anthony Pitch will be signing copies of his book, “They Have Killed Papa Dead.” The book transports readers to the moment in history when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, revealing new elements about the stories of those who...
December 3, 2011 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Revolutionary Doctors
Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in celebration of the Day of the Latin American Medicine and also in the context of the 7th. Anniversary of the foundation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ...
December 2, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
First Saturday Presentations
Descendants' Day Presentation @ 11 am
Descendant Tod Roulette will share about his ancestor Thomas Bryant of the Independent Battery, United States Colored Light Artillery.
New Market Heights Presentation @...
December 3, 2011 - 11:00am
December 3, 2011 - 2:00pm
Free
Pacific Gibralter: US-Japanese Rivalry Over the Annexation of Hawaii, 1885-1889
Fifty years before the Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Japanese sent warships to Honolulu to oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States during the Spanish-American War. As early as 1897, the...
December 7, 2011 - 12:00pm
Free
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