(Like many European tourists, he was fascinated by the institution ... It may not sound too different from the way people live today. However, George Washington, as the owner of the African ...

That famous description of George Washington by his ... understanding that if he did not turn the tide somehow, the Revolution would be a short-lived disaster. And so on a bitter cold Christmas ...

Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings were left to George’s older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine. Although George Washington attended grammar school, he is one of eight ...

Citizens across the colonies as well as former comrades in arms insisted that only he could forge a nation. Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792.