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 ...

Instead, Harding recounts his subject’s personal and professional life by examining a dozen or so of the more than 6,000 titles Weidenfeld brought out before his death at age 96 in 2016.

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 ...

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 ...

Life Facts. Birth Date February 22, 1732; Death Date December 14, 1799; ... George Washington recruited untrained colonial forces for six years until the surrender of the British in October 1781.

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

He never forgot, and rarely forgave, personal attacks. But Washington was “keenly aware” of his own shortcomings, Lindsay Chervinsky, the director of the George Washington Presidential Library ...

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 ...