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 ...

Bill Clinton Birthplace (President Bill Clinton's 1st Home Museum)

William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was born at the Julia Chester Hospital on the 19th of August 1946 in the small town of Hope, Arkansas as William Jefferson Blythe III, named for his late ...

George W. Bush Childhood Home

This typical pre-World War II suburban house shares with the Adams National Historical Site the distinction of being the home of two presidents: George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, and George Walker Bush, the ...

Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home

“All of us have to have a place we go back to. Dixon is that place for me. There was the life that has shaped my body and mind for all the years to come.” -Ronald Reagan

When Reagan ...

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 ...

Gerald R. Ford, Jr. House

Gerald Ford made his home in this typical, upper middle-class suburban house from 1955 until he became the 38th president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974. Ford was the first person ...

The Richard M. Nixon Birthplace

Richard Nixon’s term as the 37th president of the United States was a roller-coaster ride of success and failure, of triumph and defeat. Born into modest circumstances in this small frame house, he won election as president in 1968 ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

Shortly after Lyndon Baines Johnson died in January 1973, some of his friends began to consider creating a national memorial to the 36th president of the United States in Washington, DC. They decided that a grove of trees, a ...