First Ladies National Historic Site

Americans did not start calling the president’s wife the “First Lady” until some time in the middle of the 19th century. Some people say Zachary Taylor was the first to use the term in his 1849 eulogy on the ...

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Every year, the many visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota draw inspiration from the colossal portraits of four outstanding presidents of the United States: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore ...

Federal Hall National Memorial

Federal Hall National Memorial is a museum and memorial to the beginnings of the United States of America and to its first president. It stands on the site of the original Federal Hall, the first capitol of the United ...

Independence National Historical Park

The founding and growth of the United States and Philadelphia, when it was the capital city, are two of the themes that define Independence National Historical Park, which preserves associated historic buildings and artifacts and tells the story of ...

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site

“The early years of my life on the farm were full and enjoyable, isolated but not lonely. We always had enough to eat, no economic hardship, but no money to waste. We felt close to nature, close to members ...

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

"This is my country, the hill country of Texas. And through the years when time would permit, here is where I would always return, to the Pedernales River, the scenes of my childhood.” - LBJ

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated 35th president of the United States, he was the youngest person and the only Catholic ever elected to the nation’s highest office. Elected with the narrowest of margins by a nation fearful under ...

Eisenhower National Historic Site

Eisenhower National Historic Site is the only home Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, ever owned. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, loved their weekend, later retirement home adjoining the Gettysburg Battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The farm ...

Harry S. Truman National Historic Site

The comfortable 14 room, Victorian house at 219 North Delaware Street was the home of Harry S Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, for over 50 years. He moved into the house when he married Bess Wallace, ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial National Memorial

The national memorial dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, lies about half way between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Its four open-air rooms represent each of the ...