May 10, 2026 | Features, People
When George Washington’s father died in 1743 responsibility for the family fell to his young widow, Mary Ball Washington. George, then just eleven, was the eldest of Mary’s five children. Mary was about thirty-four. Few historical characters were more...
May 8, 2026 | Blog, People, Visions
We know what Washington looked like, or think we know, because we have seen dozens of portraits of him. We carry his image in our pockets, on our dollar bills and our loose change. And though the most familiar portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, and...
May 6, 2026 | America — 250 Years of Independence, Features, Visions
This is the third installment in our series commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence, with thirteen of the most important images of people, events, and ideas involved in shaping our Declaration of Independence. Make sure to read the first...
May 1, 2026 | From the Editor, News, Places
Today we learned that one of the two data center developers involved in the key lawsuit about the future of Manassas battlefield will take their case on appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court (for the background, see The Crisis at Manassas Battlefield). The outcome of...
May 1, 2026 | America — 250 Years of Independence, Visions
This is the second in a regular series of short articles commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence, tracing in words and pictures how Americans have fulfilled, and at times struggled to fulfill, the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Make...
