That feeling remained until I happened on a book called George Washington Slept Here by Karal Ann Marling. Canes and other relics dating back to the time of Washington, it would appear ...

Two days earlier Thomas Hickey, a member of the elite guard responsible for protecting George Washington ... joined the colonial side. Some people changed allegiances back and forth.

George Washington ... in France, Washington revoked the former American colonies’ alliance with that country, an action that put him at odds with strong Francophiles like Thomas Jefferson. Another ...