White House historian to speak at Wilson Library next week

Item by Chris Graham
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White House historian Dr. William Seale will be the keynote speaker at the third annual Wilson/Woodrow/Bolling/Axson First Families Reunion next week.

Seale’s talk, “The Wilsons of the White House,” will be delivered on Friday, May 9, at 4 p.m. on the Emily Smith Terrace at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP to Maria Vera at the Presidential Library at [email protected] or 540.885.0897, ext. 109.

Seale is the author of The President’s House: A History of the White House, The White House: The History of an American Idea, and The White House Garden. Seale is also a former curator of American Culture at the Smithsonian Institution.