At 22, Washington manipulated a band of Seneca warriors into an attack that sparked the French and Indian War. Alamy Stock Photo Americans widely believe that George Washington had wooden teeth ...

Dissatisfied with these one-sided and larger-than-life portraits of Washington, Coe set out to write a more balanced biography, becoming, by her own account, the first woman in 40 years (or an ...

On Sunday, Scholastic publisher announced it is pulling the recently published kids picture book A Birthday Cake for George Washington after a wave of criticism about its depiction of slaves ...

Alexis Coe’s biography of Washington — the first by a woman in 40 years — is called “You Never Forget Your First.” But have we?

It appears early in the narrative, when Colonel George Washington of the Virginia Militia, seeking to terrify his untutored, undisciplined, ragamuffin soldiers into obedience, builds a 40-foot ...

On Dec. 14, 1799, an ominous, fog-like gloom hung over Mount Vernon. Sixty-seven-year-old George Washington was dying. The ex-president, his doctors believed, was suffering from “quinsy” (a ...

George Washington Birthday Biography. 510 Views Program ID: 175242-1 Category: Vignette Format: Vignette Location: No Location First Aired: Feb 22, 2003 | 6:13pm EST | C-SPAN 1 Airing Details.