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From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by ...
The National Archives Museum will unveil a new, 10,000-square-foot exhibit as the country prepares to celebrate its 250th ...
As the nation prepares to celebrate America’s semiquincentennial, George Washington’s Mount Vernon will host a full day of ...
Calls for intifada have escalated into hate crimes targeting U.S. Jews after Hamas's terror assault on Israel. Approximately 10,000 antisemitic incidents occurred between October 2023 and September ...
Politicians, Masons, Sons of Liberty, Daughters of the American Revolution, and history lovers gathered at Brandywine ...
Elias Rodriguez’s alleged murderous rampage and the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death came four days apart, and these ...
Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British warship in Warwick in 1772.
Between ten and eleven on December 14, Washington died in his bedchamber with Martha at the foot of his bed. His last words ...
Former Half Full Editor George Washington is trying ... For my new book, The Art of American Whiskey, I was able to track down an image of Washington’s original distillery ledger, which shows ...
In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and ... figure Burns seeks to flesh out is George Washington, the hero he calls “ a deeply flawed ...
The sounds of that day, which marked the first major battle of the Revolutionary War ... “Wheelock had been trying to play both sides,” Musselwhite said. General George Washington, assuming command of ...
Burns Credit: Statehouse Report Burns, in Charleston for a preview of this team’s new “The American Revolution” documentary that comes out in six months, said South Carolinians of 250 years ...