In those videos, you'll see interviews with experts and actors recreating aspects of Washington's life. The "Discover The Real George Washington" exhibit opens on Tuesday, Feb. 22 and runs through ...

There's the George Washington made famous in the Gilbert ... among the 100 or so objects in the exhibition, the real stars are three life-size wax figures of the first president showing him ...

Name one. In many ways, George Washington is more famous for things that he never did than his many real-life accomplishments. Despite leading an extraordinary life, the popular perception of ...

But his recurrence to the imagery of hanging -- and to the real thing -- reminds us ... this is far and away the best life of George Washington ever written.

Using the recent "explosion of research," he wants to render George Washington "real" and "credible," to ... and early Republican eras to life. Along the way, however, he mistakes "visceral ...

Throughout American history, George Washington has been renowned for being first and much more: his boyhood moral rectitude, for example, and for his body parts – real and fictional. Whether ...

George Washington at Mount Vernon in a lithograph after a painting by Junius Brutus Stearns. Getty Images When George Washington was sworn in as America’s first president in 1789, his wife ...

I remember going, “Wait, they were trying to kill George Washington. Is that real? Is that fake? Is that something that you just find on the internet?” I made my way to historian Joseph Ellis ...

In this portrait, George Washington (1732–1799 ... and are barely mentioned in the many volumes that chronicle Washington’s life as a military hero and Founding Father. That’s just 10 ...

A Life”) fixated on his “virile form,” particularly his “wide, flaring hips with muscular thighs.” Richard Brookhiser (“Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington”) remarked on ...