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 ...

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, ...

* The Cast: The first US President, George Washington. * The Location: The US of A - during the 18th Century. * The Plot: To most Americans he is regarded as 'The Father Of Our Nation', but how many ...

George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe tells us in ...

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.

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 ...

Vol. 1-2. Young Washington -- Vol. 3. Planter and patriot -- Vol. 4. Leader of the revolution -- Vol. 5. Victory with the help of France -- Vol. 6. Patriot and president -- Vol. 7. First in peace / ...

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 - ...

It took an author living in Virginia’s Northern Neck near the birthplace of our nation’s first president to craft the newest book about his mother— “Mary Ball Washington: The Unknown Story of George ...