The Adams Family is one of the more prominent families in American history. They were at the center of the American Revolution, t…

In 1752, George Washington joined the Masonic Lodge in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was just twenty years old. Despite his early …

When George Washington wrote his final will in the months before he died in December 1799, he named Bushrod Washington as heir to…

Why is the way that we remember the past oftentimes different than historical reality? And how can we use public history to infor…

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the British Empire began dismantling the slave system that had helped to build it…

In May 1787, George Washington arrived in Philadelphia to attend the Constitutional Convention. One afternoon, as he waited for t…