In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare ...
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A short history of the celebration of how we came the celebrate Presidents Day as a national holiday and a day of protest.
Washington signed the letter on May 7, 1777. It was written in response to a letter, five days earlier, from Brigadier ...
Monday marks Presidents Day, a day observed on the third Monday of February each year, honoring the lives and legacies of ...
Justice. Mercy. Charity. Humility: This is Micah 6:8. It sounds as if Washington is writing a sermon, not a letter to ...
James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...
After a British attack on Danbury, Connecticut, Washington wrote the loss of supplies was trivial compared to the resistance by local militias.
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