White House Historical Association

Education, conferences, seminars, and other programs: the white house historical association has several programs to educate the general-public. In partnership with the smithsonian national museum of american history, the association hosted a colloquium on food history and the white house in october 2023. The rubenstein center continues to host white house history live, a monthly virtual program. This program had more than 600,000 views in 2024. The slavery in the president's neighborhood research initiative was launched in february 2020. It includes a landing page on the association's website featuring an interactive timeline, an index of identified enslaved people who worked at the white house, a virtual tour of the decatur house slave quarters, and new scholarship on the enslaved african americans who built and maintained the white house. In july 2024, the association hosted its annual white house history teacher institute to help provide teachers with information and lesson plans regarding white house history. Nearly 1,000 teachers have been through our professional development programs, and through them we have reached more than 520,000 students. The rubenstein center historians provided robust content for the associations website and social media platforms and answered queries from the press and the general public. The historians gave interviews to sirius xm's potus, the associated press, the washington post, the new york times, npr, usa today, cnn, fox family and friends, and other media outlets.

Publishing: the white house historical association's scholarly press produces award-winning titles on a wide range of subjects related to the history of the president's house, from its architecture, gardens, fine and decorative arts to the presidents and first ladies who have lived there over the years. Significant new books for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2024 were: wine and the white house: a history (3rd edition), the official white house christmas ornament: collected stories of a holiday tradition (5th edition), blair house: the president's guest house (3rd edition), recipes from the president's ranch: food people like to eat (6th printing), the west wing tour script, the history of the oval office, rocco keeps the beat!: music at the white house and first ladies make history. White house history quarterly issues included "the white house and the sea," "on the move," "military roles and the white house," "after the white house, "inaugural traditions." the cumulative index to the quarterly, was updated in 2024 to include issues 1 through 70. The association's books received 28 national and international awards in the following competitions: best book, benjamin franklin, communicator, eric hoffer, national indie excellence, next generation indie, and shelf unbound best indie.