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November/December 2006 The 3 Faces of George Washington The Buyable Past Resources The Gettysburg GospenDepartment Department Slug: History Now Department Byline: Harold Holzer
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George Nelson ClocksDavid LanderNovember/December 2006George Nelson said he got into furniture design by accident, and indeed the architect didn’t actually create many of the mid-twentieth-century...
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How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First PresidentFrederick E. AllenNovember/December 2006 What did George Washington really look like? We have a lot of familiar pictures of him, but they never quite agree...
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Reading America’s Most Famous SpeechHarold HolzerNovember/December 2006No presidential speech has been as widely analyzed, memorized, or canonized as Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It has...
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November/December 2006 A book entitled George Nelson in the Compact Design Portfolio series succinctly summarizes its subject’s career in words and pictures. Original Nelson/Harper/Miller clocks are...
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Sharp business skills ensured the first president’s phenomenal successRichard BrookhiserSpring/Summer 2008America’s greatest leader was its first—George Washington. He ran two start-ups, the army and...
View ArticleWashington’s Boyhood Home Found
Fall 2008 Archaeologists for the George Washington Foundation have found the site of George Washington’s boyhood home on a bluff overlooking the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia.read more
View ArticleGeorge Washington In Love
The Vivacious Sally Fairfax stole the young man’s heart long before he met MarthaThomas FlemingFall 2009ON MARCH 30, 1877, the New York Herald, one of the largest newspapers in America, printed a...
View ArticleThe Man Who Didn’t Shoot Washington
Reginald HargreavesDecember 1955The rather astounding narrative which appears here is contributed by a British historian who enjoys poking about in the vast Public Record Office in London. There, “in a...
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How tough Henry Knox hauled a train of cannon over wintry trails to help drive the British away from BostonClay PerryApril 1955Knox was one of those providential characters which spring up in...
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How Baron von Steuben used a tough winter to make a solid army out of a collection of untrained volunteersAlfred Hoyt BillJune 1955On the first day of December, 1777, a group of four foreign gentlemen...
View ArticleThe Imperial Congress
An impetuous and sometimes corrupt Congress has often hamstrung the efforts of the president since the earliest days of the RepublicThomas FlemingFall 2010On a little-remarked, steamy day in late June...
View ArticleWith Little Less Than Savage Fury
America’s first civil war took place during the Revolution, an ultra violent, family-splitting, and often vindictive conflict between patriots and loyalistsThomas B. AllenFall 2010On April 22, 1775,...
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The business of forging George Washington’s signature and correspondence to sell to unwitting buyers goes back 150 yearsEdward G. LengelFall 2011As the editor of the papers of George Washington at the...
View ArticleA Medical Profile Of George Washington
Stalwart as he was, the general was often ill. A doctor studies his record and notes shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century medical care.Rudolph Marx, M.d.August 1955If one looks closely at Gilbert...
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