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Benedict Arnold: How The Traitor Was Unmasked
, , , Issue 6“Whom can we trust now?” cried out General Washington when he discovered his friend’s “villainous perfidy.” More >>>
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2020 Articles by Approximate Date
, , , Issue 1In 2020 we published nearly 100 articles in nine issues, the most we have ever published in a year. Here are the articles sorted by the approximate date of the subject of the essay: More >>>
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Shoot Alors!
, , , Issue 2A PAIR OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PISTOLS WITH A PRESIDENTIAL LINEAGE SELLS FOR A HUGE SUM More >>>
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The Widow Washington
, , , Issue 8Denigrated as "crude," "illiterate," "self-centered," and "slovenly," Mary Washington had the singular destiny to have a son whose potential for being idealized seems to have been even greater than that for motherhood. More >>>
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The Conway Cabal
, , , Issue 1The English writer G. K. Chesterton once observed that journalism largely consists of saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. So perhaps does telling the story o More >>>
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The First Washington Monument Is Threatened
Built in 1778 by a member of the British Parliament who admired George Washington, the vandalized monument stands on an old estate now in ruins. At the end of January 2018 I embarked on a ten-day v More >>>
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Triumph At Yorktown
, , , Issue 6Everything depended on a French fleet leaving the Indies on time; two American armies meeting in Virginia on time; a French fleet beating a British fleet; a French army getting along with an American one; and a British general staying put. More >>>
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George Washington and “The Guilty, Dangerous & Vulgar Honor”
, , , Issue 2In an age of ersatz heroes, a fresh look at the real thing More >>>
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George Washington Struggles with Slavery
, , , Issue 4Our first president spoke about abolishing slavery, but couldn’t manage without the unpaid labor of hundreds of people at Mount Vernon. More >>>
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Liberté Egalité Animosité
, , , Issue 5When the French Revolution broke out two hundred years ago this month, Americans greeted it enthusiastically. After all, without the French we could never have become free. But the cheers faded as the brutality of the convulsion emerged—and we saw we were still only a feeble newborn facing a giant, intimidating world power. More >>>