click image for close-up When American painter Edward Savage sketched a prototype for a print of George Washington and his family in 1789, it included Martha Custis Washington, the wealthy widow ...

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

During the second episode of the show’s landmark Season 50, Bargatze reprised his role as George Washington for “Washington’s ...

That famous description of George Washington by his friend ... where an aristocracy evolved because of their labor. Washington frankly aspired to become part of the elite and had speculated ...