News

Reading Eagle on MSN6d
Reading Public Museum gets antique frame for Washington portrait
The portrait of George Washington at the Reading Public Museum now has a frame worthy of its illustrious subject. The museum ...
Smithsonian Magazine1mon
From These Modest Wartime Quarters, George Washington Kept the Revolution Alive
like George III or Louis XVI. It was made in Reading, Pennsylvania, during the Valley Forge encampment in the spring of 1778, as part of a replacement set for Washington’s initial campaign tents ...
World Focus: ‘George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent’
The words of Benjamin Franklin are often invoked nowadays. On Monday, Sept. 17, 1787, at the closing session of the ...
The Heritage Foundation4d
Rediscovering America’s Heritage: George Washington, Mount Vernon, and the American National Character
Brenda is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Americans have maintained particular admiration for George Washington, ...
insider.si.edu5mon
George Washington, 1732–1799
Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...