The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural talent ...

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...

"Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic concerns the discussions, planning, commissioning, and execution of the earliest federal monument - a memorial for George Washington. It was to perch above his ...