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The defining moments of George Washington's life
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Learn about George Washington's hobbies before becoming the first president of the United States of America
George Washington: Mount Vernon map
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Gilbert Stuart: portrait of George Washington
George Washington summary
Mount Vernon
George Washington Timeline
French and Indian War
George Washington’s Achievements
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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.
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The defining moments of George Washington's life
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Learn about George Washington's hobbies before becoming the first president of the United States of America
Dramatization of George Washington's pre-Revolutionary life as a Virginia landowner.
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How smallpox inoculation helped win the American Revolution
George Washington: Patriot, president, and epidemiologist?
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Learn about George Washington's crossing the Delaware, winter at Valley Forge, and victory at Yorktown
Dramatization of scenes from George Washington's service in the American Revolutionary...
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Washington: The only state named after a president
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Find out how the 13 American colonies gained their political independence from Great Britain
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Find out why Benedict Arnold colluded with the British during the American Revolutionary War
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Discussing the artifacts at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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Who were the Founding Fathers of the United States?
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Learn how George Washington and other commanders reconstituted the Continental Army while wintering at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the American Revolution
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George Washington
George Washington, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1803–05; in the National Gallery...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of Jean McGinley Draper, 1954.9.2
George Washington
Young George Washington as a surveyor, illustration from Old Times in the Colonies...
Old Times in the Colonies, by Charles Carleton Coffin, 1881
George Washington: map
Map of a portion of the Ohio River region made by George Washington, 1754.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C. (g3820 ct000361)
Mount Vernon
East view of the mansion at Mount Vernon, Fairfax county, Virginia.
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens; photograph, Robert C. Lautman
The Farmer, George Washington
The Farmer, lithograph, 1853, portrays George Washington, offering a sentimentalized...
Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society
George Washington: sketch map
George Washington's sketch map of his journey (1753–54) from what is now Cumberland,...
The Newberry Library (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
George Washington: wedding to Martha Dandridge Custis
The wedding of George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-630)
George Washington: Mount Vernon map
Map of the Mount Vernon estate, Virginia, drawn by George Washington.
Geography and Map Division/Library of Congresss, Washington, D.C. (g3882m ct000367)
Martha Washington and George Washington and their children
George Washington and Martha Washington with the children of her son, John Parke...
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-pga-03456)
George Washington: painting
George Washington in the uniform of a British colonial colonel, oil painting by Charles...
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George Washington
Gen. George Washington (riding a white horse) and his staff welcoming a provision...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-pga-0288)
Charles Willson Peale: George Washington
George Washington, oil on canvas by Charles Willson Peale, 1776; in the...
Photograph by Amy Dreher. Brooklyn Museum, New York, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 34.1178
J.C. Armytage: Retreat at Long Island
Retreat at Long Island, depicting George Washington directing the retreat...
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (148-GW-l74)
Emanuel Leutze: Washington Crossing the Delaware
Washington Crossing the Delaware, oil on canvas by Emanuel Leutze, 1851;...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897 (97.34), www. metmuseum.org
George Washington
George Washington crossing the Delaware River on the evening of December 25, 1776,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC2-3156)
Edward Percy Moran: Washington at Valley Forge
Washington at Valley Forge, print of the painting (c. 1911) by Edward Percy...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. cph 3f03793)
George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth
George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth (1778) during the American Revolutionary...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Surrender of Cornwallis
Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781, lithograph by N. Currier...
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George Washington: resigning commission
General George Washington Resigning His Commission, oil painting by John...
Architect of the Capitol
Currier & Ives: Washington Taking Leave of the Officers of His Army
Washington Taking Leave of the Officers of His Army, lithograph by Currier...
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Jean-Antoine Houdon: George Washington
Portrait bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, c. late 18th–early 19th...
Photograph by pohick2. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., gift of Miss E.C. Gallaudet, XX6
Washington delivering his inaugural address
Washington Delivering His Inaugural Address April 1789, in the Old City Hall,...
Tompkins Harrison Matteson/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-pga-03486)
Gilbert Stuart: portrait of George Washington
George Washington (Vaughan-Sinclair portrait), oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, 1795;...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1940.1.6
Washington's Farewell Address
Alexander Hamilton (right) helping Pres. George Washington write his farewell address....
Allyn Cox, Architect of the Capitol
George Washington on Mount Rushmore
Profile of the stone sculpture of George Washington, Mount Rushmore National Memorial,...
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George Washington: death
Life of George Washington—The Christian Death, oil painting by Junius Brutus...
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
George Washington: death procession
Procession commemorating George Washington's death.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
General Washington button
Button bearing George Washington's portrait, produced after his inauguration, c....
Collection of David J. and Janice L. Frent
Crawford, Thomas: George Washington
George Washington, sculpture by Thomas Crawford; in Richmond, Va.
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George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Salomon
A bronze sculpture that stands in Chicago, Illinois, showing George Washington (center),...
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Valley Forge National Historical Park
Headquarters of George Washington, Valley Forge National Historical Park, southeastern...
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Washington, George: inaugural address
George Washington's First Inaugural Address, delivered at Federal Hall, New York...
President Washington's inaugural address is preserved at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., in the Center for Legislative Archives, which has physical custody of the official records of the U.S. Congress dating from 1789; Congress maintains legal custody of these records.
Gilbert Stuart: portrait of George Washington
George Washington, oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1803; in the White House. The...
Scala/Art Resource, New York
Betsy Ross and the U.S. flag
Betsy Ross showing George Washington (left) and others how she made the U.S. flag,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3g09905u)
George Washington and the Continental Congress
George Washington (middle) surrounded by members of the Continental Congress, lithograph...
Currier & Ives Collection, Library of Congress, Neg. No. LC-USZC2-3154
Citizen Genêt Affair
Edmond-Charles Genêt (right) meeting George Washington, illustration by Howard Pyle...
Howard Pyle—Harper's Magazine, April 1897/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-100719)
George Washington at Yorktown
Siege of Yorktown, oil on canvas by Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder, c. 1836....
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George Washington: timeline
Key events in the life of George Washington.
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Mount Vernon
Spacious grounds surround the mansion at Mount Vernon in Virginia.
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens; photograph, Robert C. Lautman
George Washington
An illustration from Old Times in the Colonies (1881), by Charles Carleton...
Old Times in the Colonies, by Charles Carleton Coffin, 1881
George Washington
George Washington is shown in the uniform of a British colonial colonel.
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George Washington: wedding to Martha Dandridge Custis
The wedding of George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-630)
George Washington
A painting shows George Washington crossing the Delaware River on the night of December...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC2-3156)
The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
The American Revolution virtually ends with Lord Cornwallis surrendering to George...
Architect of the Capitol
George Washington
Triumphal arches, such as these near Philadelphia, were erected throughout the United...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
George Washington: procession commemorating Washington's death
A procession in Philadelphia commemorates the death of George Washington in 1799.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
French and Indian War
A hand-colored woodcut depicts the French encampment that George Washington attacked...
© North Wind Picture Archives
George Washington
George Washington stands (center) at a session of the Continental Congress, in this...
Currier & Ives Collection, Library of Congress, Neg. No. LC-USZC2-3154
George Washington
The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware shows George Washington leading...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897 (97.34), www. metmuseum.org
signing the U.S. Constitution
The signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 members of the Constitutional Convention...
Architect of the Capitol
George Washington: cabinet
U.S. President George Washington (far left) and members of his first cabinet (from...
Cornell University Library

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Presidency of George Washington
At a glance: the Washington presidency
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