To most Americans he is regarded as 'The Father Of Our Nation', but how many really know the man behind the face on the one dollar bill? * The Cast: The first US President, George Washington. * The ...

Grant Wood, an Iowa artist, painted this piece, “Parson Weems’ Fable,” in 1939. It depicts Mason Locke Weems (also known as Parson Weems), who was an early biographer of George Washington.

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743 Rebecca Brenner Graham - ...

You never forget your first: but you do misremember him -- Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history -- part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son -- "Pleases my taste" -- "The world on fire" -- "Blow ...