White House History Fellowships

White House History Research Fellowships for scholars pursuing projects that illuminate the historical roles of the White House as home, workplace, museum, structure and symbol.

2003 Eleanor Alexander, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Slaves in the White House"

Natalie Dykstra, Hope College, "On Stage at the Lincoln White House:  Performing Freedom in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes"

C.M. Harris, Independent Scholar, "Documentary Social History of the Jefferson White House"

David Krugler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, "The D-Minus Scenario:  How Washington, D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War"

Edward Robinson, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, "A Press Photographer in the White House:  Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1905"

2006 Pamela Scott, Independent Scholar, "Designated for Public Purposes:  The Evolution of Lafayette Square"

Catherine Clinton, Writer, "Mrs. Lincoln"

2007 Kimberly Ann Hyde, Case Western Reserve University, "Louis Comfort Tiffany and the White House"

2008 Catherine Forslund, Rockford College, "Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Victorian Modern First Lady"

Eve E. Rosenbaum, University of Iowa, "Working for the Ladies of the White House: Elizabeth Keckley and the Domestic Civil War White House"

Dana John Stefanelli, University of Virginia, "A  Capital City: Financing the Development of Early Washington, DC"

Andrea Wulf, Writer and Historian, "The Founding Gardners:  How the Revolutionary Generation Created the American Eden"

White House History Fellowship in Public History

2004  Edmund Dickenson Potter, Curator of Collections, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library at his Birthplace:  ABD, Auburn University, "Woodrow Wilson's Executive Office Building:  Uses of the West Wing from 1909-1929"

2008 Anna Coxe Toogood, Independence National Historical Park, "Presidential Householdds in Philadelphia"

White House History Fellowships in Precollegiate Education for White House and presidential history initiatives that reach the K-12 classroom.

2003 Jane Cook, Independent Author, "Bear Cubs for Mr. Jefferson:  White House Moments and American Changes"

Michelle Pearson, Annunciation School, Denver, Colorado, "A Visit with History:  A Lesson Collection Used to Teach the Journal, White House History"

2004  Sally Sims Stokes, Independent Scholar, "Backstairs Social History:  Lessons and Activities for Understanding the Experiences of White House Workers"

2005 L. Mark Sweeney, Cactus Shadows High School, Cave Creek, AZ, “The Presidency and the Press: An Examination of Spin."

2006 Susan Hamilton Mitchell, Oceanside (CA) Unified School District, "Encounters at the White House: The President and Native American Delegations (1850-1865)"

2007 Glenda Armand Sheppard, Los Angeles Unified School District, California, "Frederick Douglass:  From Slave Cabin to the White House"

Michelle L. Pearson, Hulstrom Options at Rocky Top Middle School, Thornton, Colorado, and Christopher T. Jennings, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., "Using Google Earth to Track the Mobile White House"