"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a ...

Women will take center stage at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, this fall, with the largest showing of first lady portraiture ever held outside the White House. The show ...

President Barack and Michelle Obama’s official White House portraits were unveiled this month in the East Room, an American cultural tradition that has helped build a visual archive of the presidency ...

A new exhibition, “Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States,” will gather portraits and other artistic representations of first ladies. By Gabe Cohn Over and over, after poring over ...

Eleanor Roosevelt’s greatest invention was herself. Born into a society family at the height of the Victorian age, she was expected to be polite, subservient, and silent. Initially, she was. Until she ...

Richard Kaplan, who directed an Oscar-winning documentary about Eleanor Roosevelt and oversaw production of an acclaimed portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. two years after his assassination, ...

Enjoy an afternoon of music from the Broadway bound musical ‘Understanding Eleanor’, an intimate portrait of perhaps the most renown First Lady in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt and one that is ...

Lorenzo Winslow, the White House architect in the 1930s, designed and oversaw the construction of the East Wing and the ...

The U.S. Mint has announced the next five women to appear on the backs of coins as part of the American Women Quarters Program authorized by Congress. The program is designed to highlight the ...