It's President's Day, but rather than focus on the presidents themselves this year, how about we think about all the people who have made the presidency work over the years? And by this, I mean the actual workers, many of whom were not free in...
George Washington
From almost the beginning of U.S. history to I guess about World War I, American writers and thinkers were obsessed with what it meant to be an American. What made.
This is the grave of George Washington. There's one much one can say about Washington, so just a couple of points. 1) His choosing to step down from power peacefully.
I visited Mount Vernon recently. While some might think George Washington's dentures are the most impressive thing you can see and others might look from Washington's porch and imagine themselves as him overlooking the Potomac and Maryland, there's no question that the more sophisticated reading...
Christopher Cameron has an interesting post at the U.S. Intellectual History blog about George Washington's growing abolitionism. Historians ignored this side of Washington for a very long time, but in.