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Lady Washington
Dorothy Clarke WilsonWidowed at the age of twenty-seven by the death of her beloved husband, Martha Custis entertains Colonel George Washington at her Williamsburg mansion and soon becomes the wife of the rising war hero
Who is Markie?: The Life of Martha Custis Williams Carter, ...
Frances ScottOver seventy years ago, the Huntington Library published a slim volume of the letters of Robert E. Lee, To Markie. Who was Markie? The short answer is that she was Martha Custis Williams, a cousin of Lee[¬[s wife, Mary Custis Lee.
George Washington Carver
John PerryGeorge Washington Carver goes beyond the public image to chronicle the adventures of one of history's most inspiring and remarkable men. George Washington Carver was born a slave.
Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World
Carolyn Custis JamesMalestrom builds on and expands previous books by Carolyn Custis James to explore the idea of manhood, a growing issue both in the wider culture and in the church.
George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal
Fritz HirschfeldGeorge Washington and Slavery will be an essential addition to the historiography of eighteenth-century America and of Washington himself.
George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design ...
Joseph MancaBased on careful study of Washington’s personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this richly illustrated book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers—an avid art ...
George Washington's Military Genius
Dave Richard PalmerConfronting the critics who say Washington's battlefield success and ultimate victories were a function of luck, George Washington's Military Genius proves why the father of our country also deserves the title of America's preeminent ...
George Washington
Mark LardasDespite his lack of formal military training, George Washington may be one of history's must underrated commanders.
George Washington
Augusta StevensonGet to know George Washington as a kid and discover what made him the ultimate all-star in American history.
Crossing the Delaware: George Washington and the Battle of ...
Arlan DeanGeneral George Washington leads a surprise attack against British troops in Trenton, New Jersey, in the cold winter of 1776.
Designing the Nation's Capital: The 1901 Plan for Washington, DC
Sue A. KohlerAntoinette J. Lee, (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Center for Washington Area Studies, Occasional Paper ... For their assistance with this essay, I should like to thank Pamela Scott, Fred Bauman of the Manuscript Division, ...
What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports
George AllenAnd George Allen—former U.S. Senator, former Virginia Governor, and son of the great NFL coach George Allen, Sr.—brings these two worlds together in his new book, The Triumph of Character: What Washington Can Learn From the Principles ...
Black Empire
George Samuel Schuyler"Imagine W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Marcus Garvey rolled into one fascist superman, and there you have Dr. Henry Belsidus. . . [The novels] are an Afrocentrist's dream.
Meet George Washington
Joan HeilbronerThis valiant story of how young George Washington was drawn into his country's struggle for independence gives readers a vivid perspective on a crucial era in American history--and on the life of a revolutionary hero.
George Washington Reconsidered
PreviewWith three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years.
George Washington and the Jews
Fritz HirschfeldThis volume explores the background and circumstances that brought about a milestone relationship between George Washington and the Jews.
The General in the Garden: George Washington's Landscape at ...
Adam T. ErbyDesigning the beautiful: General Washington's landscape improvements, 1784-1787 / Adam T. Erby -- George Washington's gardens: under the watchful eye of the Mount Vernon Ladies / J. Dean Norton -- "Laid out in squares, and boxed with great ...
George Washington: Revolutionary Leader & Founding Father
Sari EarlProvides a biography of George Washington covering his childhood, family life, military service during the Revolutionary War, and years as President of the United States.
Res Gestae: Pub. by the Students of the George Washington ...
Thomas Marshall SpauldingPub. by the Students of the George Washington University Law School, Fiftieth Anniversary, 1915 Thomas Marshall Spaulding, George Washington University. Law School. Zllrrshmen +*l' '1'-IHAROLD G. SOWDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ohio ...
Princeton Portraits
Donald Drew EgbertGEORGE WASHINGTON MUSGRAVE 1804 . 1882 FIGURE 143 The Rev. George Washington Musgrave was one of those leading Presbyterian divines of the nineteenth century who served both as a trustee of the College of New Jersey and ...
George Washington: The Crossing
Jack E. LevinFeaturing Revolution-era artwork, portraiture, and maps, George Washington: The Crossing imparts the same vivid, intimate telling, that of a father to his sons—the kind of history lesson that lives in the heart forever.
Religion and the American Presidency
Preview... 1961), chapter V. For an elaboration of George Washington's position, see Vincent Phillip Muñoz, “George Washington on Religious Liberty,” The Review of Politics, 65 (Winter 2003): 11–33. The Washingtonian classical republican position ...
A Companion to George Washington
Preview... Vernon, Virginia, and the Wider Atlantic World” in George Washington's South, Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien, eds. ... Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Author of Hugh Wynne, Books, Autographs, Prints, and Historical Relics, to be Sold at ...
Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. ...
Gary Scott SmithIn fact, Gary Scott Smith shows, none of this is new. Religion has been a major part of the presidency since George Washington's first inaugural address.
Journal of the New England Garden History Society
More editionsGeorge Washington Cable and the Carnegie Gardening Competition in Northampton, Massachusetts MAY BRAWLEY HILL AUTHOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER GEORGE Washington Cable (1844-1925), a New Orleans native who achieved ...
The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel
Michael Aaron RocklandThis rich narrative offers both a personal and historic account of the George Washington Bridge spanning New York and New Jersey and presents diverse perspectives on this majestic structure that encompass such areas as history, architecture ...
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