RECREATION / VACATIONS / RETREATS


1) Online Presentation:

"Escaping the Gilded Cage, Presidential Vacations and Retreats" / [video interview w/Lawrence Knutson]
"The White House Gardens & Grounds: Recreation & Leisure" / [online presentation]
"White House Horses: Presidents on Horseback" / [online exhibit (re: presidential recreation)]
"Lincoln's Commute" / [online presentation (re: Lincoln's summer retreat @ Soldiers' Home Cottage)]
"Presidential Vacations & Retreats" / [historic image slideshow]
"Presidents and Baseball" / [historic image slideshow]


2) General Interest / Educational / Research:

White House History Themes: "Vacations, Recreation & Sport" / [by-theme links page]
White House History Facts: Sports & Recreation / [facts page]
2009 White House Christmas Ornament Historical Essay / [short essay (re: Cleveland vacation)]
Classroom: "Where History Lives" Educator's Resource / [PDF curriculum guide (re: presidential vacations)]
White House History Journal: "Truman Beach: Key West" / [PDF article by Lawrence Knutson]
White House History Journal: "Abraham Lincoln’s White House" / [PDF article by Harold Holzer (re: Lincoln @ Soldiers' Home Cottage)]
White House History Journal: Cumulative Index, 1983-current / [PDF reference document]


3) Other:

Picturing the President's House, Taft: "Taft family on horseback" / [historic image]
Picturing the President's House, Hoover: "Cabinet Members playing Medicine Ball" / [historic image]
Picturing the President's House, FDR: "Indoor Pool" / [historic image]
Picturing the President's House, Truman: "White House Gym" / [historic image]
Picturing the President's House, Ford: "President Ford playing tennis" / [historic image]
Picturing the President's House, Ford: "The White House Pool" / [historic image]
Picturing the President's House, G. H. W. Bush: "The White House Horseshoe Pit" / [historic image]



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