George Washington

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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.

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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.”