Finalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...

A book owned by George Washington and containing his own annotated copy of the Constitution sold for $9.8 million at Christie's, more than three times what it was expected to draw.

The book tells the story of Hercules, a slave whom George Washington used as a chef. The book shows Hercules and his daughter happy and taking pride in making the president a birthday cake.

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it sentimentalizes a brutal part of American history. “A Birthday Cake for ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

The book, which depicts Hercules and Delia preparing a cake for Washington, has received more than 100 one-star reviews on Amazon.com. As of Sunday evening, only 12 reviews were positive.

The book really just jumps up and asks you to pay attention; it’s not a book that you ease into. The preface presents a series of charts, like of the jobs Washington had, or the animals he ...

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Stevens declared that the books were likely to end up in the British Museum. But in Boston, when word got out that George Washington’s books were destined for the collection of their British cousins, ...