George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe ...

Chernow begins his book with such a moment -- Washington in 1793, the newly elected first president of the United States, seated before the disheveled, chattering, snuff-taking artist Gilbert Stuart.

YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST A Biography of George Washington By Alexis Coe Read by Brittany Pressley. Given that we are now a nation of armchair epidemiologists, it felt eerily relevant to learn ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

Alexis Coe’s biography of Washington — the first by a woman in 40 years — is called “You Never Forget Your First.” But have we?

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Revolutionary hit musical "Hamilton" and author Ron Chernow, whose book inspired it, will be awarded the ...

On Dec. 14, 1799, an ominous, fog-like gloom hung over Mount Vernon. Sixty-seven-year-old George Washington was dying. The ex-president, his doctors believed, was suffering from “quinsy” (a ...

The National Book Foundation announced the list of nominees for the 2022 National Book Award and a biography of the late George Floyd was among the contesters for nonfiction a little over two ...

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A Life Reimagined uncovers the little known backstory of a man considered instrumental in founding Great Smoky Mountains ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.