The Landsdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired as a gift to the nation through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds ...

To most Americans he is regarded as 'The Father Of Our Nation', but how many really know the man behind the face on the one dollar bill? * The Cast: The first US President, George Washington. * The ...

In this breezy yet fact-filled revisionist biography, historian and podcast host Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) takes George Washington’s previous—predominantly male—biographers to task for obsessing ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! George Washington Biographical Vignette A brief summary of the accomplishments and life history of George Washington.

Few Americans are as surrounded by legend as George Washington is. The first President of the United States is renowned as a military genius who led his troops to victory during the Revolutionary War, ...

Ellis has previously portrayed George Washington largely as the object of the partisan manipulations of those serving around and beneath him: Hamilton, his wartime aide-de-camp and first treasury ...

Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...

No one would describe Alexis Coe’s unconventional biography of conventional biographical subject George Washington as boring. Starting with its cover illustration, a playful Washington grinning at the ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743 Rebecca Brenner Graham - ...