George Washington

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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.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  2/11/19
  

  George Washington letter on God and the Constitution surfaces

  The letter, which is priced at $140,000, is up for sale at Ardmore, Pa.-based historical document dealer The Raab Collection.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/19
  

  George Washington’s first State of the Union address: Little pomp and no applause lines

  It was very different from the speech President Trump delivered and the political spectacle the event has become.

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  1/25/19
  

  George Washington's 'illustrious' hair goes up for auction

  The starting bid for Washington's hair was $2,500 and the auction is slated to close on Feb. 1.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-8-18
  

  Would George Washington embrace the migrant caravan?

  Our first president offered asylum as one of America’s assets. Repeatedly.

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• SOURCE: OUPblog
  10-10-18
  

  In his new book historian Colin G. Calloway reports that George Washington’s Indian legacy was decidedly mixed

  Some regarded him as the “Town Destroyer,” while others referred to him as “great father."

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• 9/26/18
  

  Is There Anything to Donald Trump's Claim that George Washington Had Skeletons in His Closet?

  by Rick Shenkman

  Here's what we know.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-21-18
  

  George Washington’s Broken Dream of a National University

  by Adam Harris

  The founders believed a federal institution focused on civic education could help unite a fractured country.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7-19-18
  

  Americans are right to wonder if the Great Experiment has failed

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Americans are right to wonder if, at long last, what George Washington called the Great Experiment has failed, and that our founders have lost their extraordinary wager that regular people could govern themselves better than a few rich men could.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7-2-18
  

  When George Washington fought fake news

  Forged letters from before his presidency claimed to show in his own words that he privately sympathized with the British monarchy and thought the American cause was doomed.

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• 7/8/18
  

  Historians Make too Much of This Document

  by David O. Stewart

  It’s George Washington’s Rules of Civility.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-23-18
  

  We’re whitewashing the history of our founding, says Leslie Harris

  by Leslie M. Harris

  "It’s fueling problems today.”

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• SOURCE: Washington College Press Release
  4/30/18
  

  Author Kevin J. Hayes Wins 2018 George Washington Prize of $50K

  He's the author of the new book, "George Washington: A Life in Books."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-18-18
  

  Why George Washington rejected a military parade in his honor (and why Donald Trump should, too)

  by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  Of all the precedents the first president set, this is one of his most overlooked — and most important.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-18-18
  

  Finding a Lock of George Washington’s Hair, and a Link to American History

  A librarian going through a book at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., found a thin envelope that may add to the odd history of a founding father’s hair.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-29-17
  

  Virginia church to move plaques honoring Lee and Washington

  In response to violent protests over the fate of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this year, a 244-year-old Episcopal church in Alexandria is planning to move a set of plaques honoring former parishioners Robert E. Lee and George Washington.

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• 11-3-17
  

  We’ve Been Missing This One Key Fact About General George Washington

  by Thomas Fleming

  What made him a great leader in the Revolution was his willingness to change strategy mid-way through the war.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-21-17
  

  Jon Meacham points out why Lee should go but Washington should stay

  by Jon Meacham

  Lee had it right: “I think it wiser,” he wrote in 1866, “not to keep open the sores of war.”