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A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...
The Constitution we celebrate each year could not have been written or ratified without Washington’s participation.
In 1791, President George Washington, in only his second year of his Presidency, decided to make a Southern Tour, to see what our young country was all about.
Partisanship is the primary problem for the American republic, according to George Washington, who express that opinion in ...
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The version of the quote that widely circulated online was shortened and simplified, but it accurately preserved the meaning of Washington's original words as delivered in a March 15, 1783, speech.