George Washington

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/21/20
  

  How 22-Year-Old George Washington Inadvertently Sparked a World War

  The first U.S. president’s celebrated military career actually started out quite poorly, in the French and Indian War.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  12/10/10
  

  Poll: Majority of Democrats think Obama was better president than Washington

  The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, found that 63 percent of Democratic survey respondents believed that Obama was a better president than Washington.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  12/3/19
  

  Mary Thompson Featured in Article on George Washington's Dog Breeding

  Among the names the future first president gave his dogs were Sweet Lips, Venus, Trulove, Taster, Tippler, Drunkard and Madame Moose.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  Accessed 12/5/19
  

  Foreign Affairs Reviews James Banner's Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today

  Banner describes the book as an exercise of “historians’ civic office.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/20/19
  

  No, Trump in 2019 is not like George Washington in 1794

  Here’s why that comparison doesn’t work.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/23/19
  

  George Washington was the polar opposite of Donald Trump

  by Jeremi Suri

  Washington served his country with courage, dignity, and great personal sacrifice. He was a statesman, not a businessman. He prioritized his country, not his pocketbook.

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• 10/13/19
  

  Trump and A History of Presidential Anti-Semitism

  by Donne Levy

  As with so many Trump blunders, he is apparently ignorant of the history and nature of anti-Semitism in America.

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• 9/22/19
  

  What To Know About the History of Emoluments and Impeachment

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  If, as charged by some in Congress, President Trump did in fact receive emoluments, he would only have adhered to an all-but-hallowed American tradition that dates back to the nation’s origins—and even earlier.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/25/19
  

  George Washington owned slaves and ordered Indians killed. Will a mural of that history be hidden?

  by Gillian Brockell

  This is the story of the layers of history that will continue to exist underneath, whether the murals are covered by curtains, panels or paint.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/19
  

  Widow, slaveholder, mother of our first president

  by Marjoleine Kars

  Eager to uncover the real Mary, Martha Saxton, an emerita historian at Amherst College who has written biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jayne Mansfield, set out to paint a more true-to-life portrait.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  July 22, 2019
  

  Historic mansion on land George Washington once owned is set to be demolished

  Some in Virginia bemoan losing Collingwood, a Potomac River landmark

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  6/18/19
  

  This Long-Ignored Document, Written by George Washington, Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

  by Karin Wulf

  In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6/12/2019
  

  Why No One Can Agree on What George Washington Thought About the Relationship Between Church and State

  by Sam Wineburg

  The first president wanted to unite citizens of all religions without alienating Catholics, freethinkers and Jews.

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Post Examiner
  6/9/2019
  

  The hidden history of the conspiracy to kill General George Washington brought to light

  Authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch offer insight into a little known chapter in the saga of America’s finest son.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  A tale of two Mount Vernons: How Washington’s estate separates his story from his slaves’

  Mount Vernon is also a Southern plantation where hundreds of people lived in servitude and abject poverty, and their stories deserve to be heard, too.

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• 5/21/19
  

  All the President’s Humility: What We Can Learn From Young George Washington

  by Peter Stark

  It took Washington many years to metamorphose from self-centered, impetuous young man burning with ambition to gain personal “honor” into a steady, selfless, seemingly unflappable leader.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/10/19
  

  “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it:" Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon

  The 45th president — no student of history — marveled at the first president’s failure to name his historic compound after himself.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/3/`9
  

  Two prizewinning books detail slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime

  The authors detail the life of a woman who refused to be a possession of the nation’s first president and the Michigan city’s troubled past.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/26/19
  

  George Washington’s lesson for Trump’s America

  by Marc Aronson

  Principles, not a thirst for power, must guide our leaders.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/19
  

  The plot to assassinate George Washington — and how it was foiled

  If it weren’t for an overheard conversation in a New York jail, we might all be drinking British tea today.