The Landsdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired as a gift to the nation through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds ...

Few Americans are as surrounded by legend as George Washington is. The first President of the United States is renowned as a military genius who led his troops to victory during the Revolutionary War, ...

* The Cast: The first US President, George Washington. * The Location: The US of A - during the 18th Century. * The Plot: To most Americans he is regarded as 'The Father Of Our Nation', but how many ...

At 22, Washington manipulated a band of Seneca warriors into an attack that sparked the French and Indian War. Alamy Stock Photo Americans widely believe that George Washington had wooden teeth. But ...

In this breezy yet fact-filled revisionist biography, historian and podcast host Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) takes George Washington’s previous—predominantly male—biographers to task for obsessing ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! George Washington Biographical Vignette A brief summary of the accomplishments and life history of George Washington.

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural talent ...

Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...