But after the war’s end, Washington watched with dismay as the very officers who had fought off the rule of a monarch made grabs for their own individual power. Washington was now tired and wanted ...

Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways ... about that far-off and exotic place to young George Washington Parke Custis, who recalled as an adult that Father Jack was an African negro ...

That famous description of George ... a wealthy young widow, Martha Dandridge Custis. The two were soon married. Washington had been infatuated before, but Martha proved a perfect life partner ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on ...