NEW BOOK: 'To Live on Lafayette Square' by William Seale
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The White House Historical Association (WHHA) has announced its forthcoming book, To Live on Lafayette Square: Society and Politics in the White House Neighborhood, by historian and author, Dr. William Seale.
- WASHINGTON, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The White House Historical Association (WHHA) has announced its forthcoming book, To Live on Lafayette Square: Society and Politics in the White House Neighborhood, by historian and author, Dr. William Seale.
- In an upper bedroom of this same house Lincoln's secretary of state, William Seward, was viciously knifed the night Lincoln was assassinated.
- The house was demolished long after to build an opera house, which contributed its own half-century history to Lafayette Square."
- He is founding editor of White House History Quarterly, the award-winning journal of the White House Historical Association.