The White House is probably the most famous house in the United States, if not the world. We will look at how it was built, rebuilt, renovated, updated, and how it changed from being the “President’s House” to the “Executive Mansion” to the “White House” in the years since it was built in the 1790s.

Subject: history

Robert Schoone-Jongen is a professor of history emeritus at Calvin University who continues to research and teach about the topics of immigration and the American presidency. He has published articles on the history of American immigration, especially Dutch immigration to New Jersey and Minnesota. His most recent courses for CALL include Descent into Darkness: Why Germans Embraced the Nazis; First-Class, Second-Class, Steerage: Three Voyages from Rotterdam to Hoboken and Beyond; The American Revolution: Bunker Hill and Beyond; and The 1619 Project.