Agrippa Hull, a free Black man born in Massachusetts in 1759 and veteran of the Revolutionary War, spent the vast majority of ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American Leadership. She is a two-time former fellow of the Winterthur Museum, Garden ...

The $100,000 bill is a fascinating piece of American currency history. While today, the largest bill you can find is the $100 ...

Nearly 5,000 volunteers have transcribed roughly 100,000 pension documents from the Revolutionary War. With 2.4 million pages ...

Manisha Sinha Source: Times Literary Supplement ‘Williams’ Gang is simply excellent and a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the history of the post-Revolutionary War slave trade in ...

WATERVILLE — Asa Redington was one of only a few Americans to serve in the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, an elite Revolutionary War-era unit responsible for protecting Gen. George Washington and ...

The furniture in the bedroom where George ... Washington’s death in 1799, more than 300 were enslaved across the plantation there. Washington, who led American forces during the Revolutionary ...

Thousands of enthusiastic supporters — Revolutionary War veterans ... After departing Washington, D.C. and a stop at Mount Vernon and the tomb of his “commander” and friend George Washington ...

His patients included Peter Lorre, who played a psychopathic child-killer in Fritz Lang’s “M” (1931), and Dix, who painted this portrait. According to the doctor’s daughter (interviewed by ...

Midnight huddles in Revolutionary ... Governor George Clinton marked the occasion with a soirée at Fraunces Tavern. During ...

The critic in Epstein has a good word for the book that brought Didion to national attention—Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1967), a wry portrait of California ... they might have taken on the war there.