The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

The number of personal things to be done and the limited ... Toward the end of George Washington's life, farm manager James Anderson tightened the privilege a bit by requiring that slaves from ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

Alexis Coe Alexis Coe is an historian and the bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington.

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare reference to the experimental smallpox inoculation that helped prevent outbreaks Eli Wizevich ...

George Washington was the ... The veneration of Washington is fairly grounded in four distinct, civic-minded stages of his very public life. As a soldier, he served as commander in chief of ...

President George Washington's personal copy of "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is among the rare books preserved by the Boston Athenaeum. But how these books — and more than a hundred others kept ...