In the 1760s, tobacco was one of Virginia’s chief exports. But George Washington turned away from the noxious plant and began dre…

In the 18th and 19th centuries, North Americans looked up at the sky in wonder at the cosmos and what lay beyond earth’s atmosphe…

When delegates assembled in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787 to write a new Constitution, they spent months in secret writing a…

Episode 8: "Legacies" Interpreting slavery at Mount Vernon was not part of the mission of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association wh…

Episode 7: “Preserving” Edmund Parker never knew George and Martha Washington, but he knew Mount Vernon and the Washington Family…

Episode 6: “Leaving” Nancy Carter Quander was just a child when George Washington died in December 1799, but his death changed he…