The new painting is just the latest example of Trump and his aides' efforts to give the White House a more Trumpian aesthetic ...

Americans may have forgotten the War of 1812, one joke goes, but the British never knew it was fought in the first place. Here’s our story on the burning of the White House and the Capitol by ...

The West Wing walls have reportedly gained a remarkable new piece of artwork. A piece that illustrates Donald Trump, Abraham ...

Posted below a picture of a cake shaped like the White House, which had been decked out with sparklers, the British Embassy wrote the comment: "Commemorating the 200th anniversary of burning the ...

“So much so, in fact, that when the British ... White House two years ago, he and President Obama, fresh from watching a March Madness basketball game together, traded wisecracks about the burning.

Soon the interior of the White House began collapsing into its burning wooden floors ... helped remove the treasured painting of Washington that day as the British approached.

British diplomats in Washington are apologizing for Twitter posts that made light of the 200th anniversary of their troops torching the White House in the War of 1812. The apologies were prompted ...

Author William Seale talked about the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from ...

Two hundred years ago Sunday, August, 24, when America and the United Kingdom were enmeshed in the War of 1812, some Brits burned the White House to the ground. So how did the British Embassy in ...

to cover the obvious burn marks: 1814 was also the year the British burned Washington, DC. and the President's home had to be repainted white — hence the White House of today! Burned by the ...

But this office did not exist before the burning of the White House. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the White House. The fire destroyed much of the interior and weakened the ...