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.

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 ...

Driven by duty to present himself to the citizens of the shaky new union, he spent the night in so many inns and private houses that “George Washington Slept Here” became a real estate cliché ...

George Washington was born on either Feb. 11 ... in All About History 123 The real life of Tutankhamun uncovered in All About History 122 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...