George Washington Parke Custis ... first at Valley Forge and then at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which opened in 2017. Asked if he knew of a more storied item of ...

Washington.” Indeed, by May 1777, George Washington had reason to be ... That spirit embodies the American Revolution, which ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

O n the eve of his 293rd birthday, George Washington got his Springfield party Friday afternoon, as members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno gathered at the ...

22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... In late December 1776, with the revolution on the verge of collapse, enlistments about to expire, and “summer soldiers” waiting ...

President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered self-evident since 1776.

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution ... and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

Driven by the desire to secure the fate of the colonies, the greatest hero of the revolution, George Washington, succumbs to the temptation of infinite power. The new King is born and his reign ...