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 ...

Mary V. Thompson, a research specialist at Mt. Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in ...

The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

They were later split among the president’s great-nephews. And one of those great-nephews, George Corbin Washington, was “always hard up for cash,” Buchtel noted. In 1848, George C. Washington sold ...

George Washington’s Runaway Slave, Harry. ... but at the end of his life the couple owned 317 slaves together. ... Washington’s personal servant, ...

At the time of Washington’s death in 1799, there were 317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon, his home and plantation in Virginia, including 123 people owned by Washington himself. “George ...