Chloe Chapin is a costume designer, fashion historian and the author of “Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men.” ...
The story is that George Washington had wooden teeth, and while he did have dental troubles and dentures, they weren’t made out of wood.
George W. Bush was never my cup of tea. He was an unsuccessful president. Some of his mistakes were obvious at the time. 1 Others were judgment calls.
The 43rd president of the United States launched a Substack site Feb. 16 with a 1,500-word tribute to a predecessor.
On this day 250 years ago, Washington would have been nearing the end of an almost yearlong siege that bottled up as many as 11,000 British troops and hundreds more loyalists. The British were ...
The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...
Whereas Trump … well, he’s no George Washington. And he tells us so! He is instinctively royalist and brazenly self-aggrandizing. He repeatedly claims powers he does not legally have. He promiscuously ...
Cherry pie, for Presidents Day, has been a tradition ever since Washington chopped the cherry tree. Which he probably didn't do.
George Washington is perhaps the most recognizable figure in American history, yet he often feels more like a marble statue or a face on a dollar bill than a flesh-and-blood man. We see his name on ...
While tales of his copping to chopping a cherry tree were just lore, the nation’s first president did partake of this cherry ...