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2 days ago · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the ...
5 days ago · The people Saunders selected to write about are an eclectic group, including George Palmer Putnam (Amelia Earhart’s widower), C.S. Lewis, Henry VIII, Martha Washington, Norman Rockwell, George...
5 days ago · Though Martha Washington missed the ball, she arrived in her own coach to New York on May 27, 1789. With her were her two grandchildren, Nelly Parke Custis and George Washington Parke...
4 days ago · Martha Washington's Blue Dress And Other Presidental Wedding Styles From History From extravagant ceremonies to the last-minute dress selection, these Presidential weddings are sure to amaze.
3 days ago · On March 1, 1974, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted several former aides of Nixon, who became known as the "Watergate Seven"— H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson —for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
3 days ago · In Washington, her primary focus was to raise her younger children and manage her household, but she also involved herself in the activities of the capital. She attended political briefings and social events, [26] and her attendance at regular events at the White House endeared her to first lady Lady Bird Johnson. [49]
4 days ago · The book comes out 25 years to the day from when the small plane John F. Kennedy Jr. was piloting plummeted into the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, killing him, his wife and her sister.
