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America 250: Washington — The making of America’s first president

Before he was the father of our country, before he led Continental Army soldiers across an icy Delaware River, before he ...

Where to find DC’s original tribute to George Washington

Before the Washington Monument, D.C. paid tribute to America’s founding father with an approximately 20-foot-tall statue in ...

America 250 hidden history: The First Washington Monument

It is one of the most recognizable obelisks in the world, but did you know the Washington Monument we know today is not the ...
Council on Foreign Relations

George Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation

The 1793 declaration that the United States would remain neutral in the war between Britain and France divided the country ...
Mother Jones

America Can’t Let Go of George Washington’s Slave-Holding History

These two sides of the argument over how we remember Washington are the inspiration for John Garrison Marks’s new book, Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for ...