Love anything enough and it will reveal its secrets to you.” So said George Washington Carver, one of the world’s greatest of scientists, yet most modest of men. Glenn Clark, ...

Ellis (“His Excellency: George Washington”) wrote that his ... When Coe set out to write her 2020 Washington biography, “You Never Forget Your First,” she was struck by how few biographies ...

After his death, his childhood home in Diamond, Missouri, was named as the George Washington Carver National Monument, the first time this happened for an African American. Carver was also ...

The American scientist’s life is filled with fascinating details, and it can be argued that he saved the agricultural industry of the southern United States.

Debbie Kawam was a high-spirited, happy girl, childhood friends recalled. Then her life took a grim turn. Good morning. It’s ...

In his biography of Washington, Ron Chernow described what his ... and so might well again.” On Christmas night 1776, George Washington kept our Continental Army “spirited and gallant” in its darkest ...

Jimmy Carter was a genuine Washington outsider when he won the White House in 1976. And he remained proudly so, for better or ...

Alexis Coe is the New York Times bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. While far less famous than the coalition that met in 1775, this group of ...

President-elect Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama shared a laugh. Trump even shook Mike Pence’s hand.

Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...

Throughout his life, he showed us what it means to be practitioner of good works, a good and faithful servant of God and of the people,” Biden said of Carter.

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