Rather than mixing Jell-O shots, however, these men were sipping Washington's Madeira wine among other common alcoholic ...

George Washington wore many hats. He was a solider, farmer, brewer, entrepreneur, and visionary. He also had a lot of money, and is thought to have been the richest US president, with an estimated ...

“Thanksgiving Day became a habit [when] it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the ...

The number of personal things to be done and the limited ... Toward the end of George Washington's life, farm manager James Anderson tightened the privilege a bit by requiring that slaves from ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

But after the war’s end, Washington watched with dismay as the very officers who had fought off the rule of a monarch made grabs for their own individual power. Washington was now tired and wanted ...

That famous description of George Washington by his friend ... Resigning his commission, he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting a family farm ...

And no one is more appealing than George ... see Washington’s work as a commander or as President without its relationship to slavery. Slavery was not an incidental factor in his life.