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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of course, this meant an early morning for anyone trying to ... Toward the end of George Washington's life, farm manager James Anderson tightened the privilege a bit by requiring that slaves ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

George Washington was an early adopter of the home greenhouse. In the mid-1780s he constructed a greenhouse that only had ...

The nation's very first Inauguration Day had to be postponed as an exceptionally cold and bitter winter delayed the counting ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s ... for the rest of his life. Carver spent a lot of ...

1934-1956 Professor, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. During the early years in Washington he collaboratedwith Edward Teller on the theory of beta-decay, and formulated the so-called ...