A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In the beginning, not a whisper ...
George Washington is a figure who has achieved mythic proportions in American history. One genealogist even tried to give him mythic roots. Albert Welles’s 1879 book was grandiosely titled The ...
In 1842, a court in Lancaster, England, convicted a young lawyer, George Baxter Grundy, of forging payment, and promptly sent him to serve a fifteen-year sentence in Bermuda, “beyond the seas.” The ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This blog post was authored by Anna Shortridge, research associate for U.S.
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