Three decades before his election as the first president of the United States in 1789, George Washington commanded soldiers ...

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Why Martha Washington’s Life Is So Elusive to Historians A gown worn by the first First Lady reveals a dimension of her nature that few have been aware of ...

George Washington—more than a general and statesman—was also a pioneering farmer. He fertilized his fields using animal waste and lime, ...

You can trace the start of a small, striped piece of fabric to a humid July morning. That day, students harvested flax. Then ...

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I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant herbivore one of the most recognizable dinosaurs to me as a kid. But for ...