Boston 1775

Since September 2025 I’ve been following the dispute over displays at the President’s House, part of Independence National Historical Park ...

On 21 April, the Philadelphia Inquirer shared an opinion piece about the President’s House exhibit by Sharon Ann Holt, a public historian ...

I’ve been following the story of the President’s House site within Independence National Historical Park. That structure marks the reside...

Last month I noted the news reports that White House policy had pushed the National Park Service into removing signage in Independence Nati...

Back in September , I shared news reports of the Trump White House complaining about signs at the President’s House Site in Independence Nat...

Back in July, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on how pressure from the Trump White House was affecting signage at Independent National H...

The little stories I’ve told over the last two days about Benjamin Franklin ’s and George Washington ’s grandchildren raise the question: ...

In 2018, Mount Vernon hosted a symposium on the theme “‘A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool’: The Women of George Washington’s W...

Last year I had the honor of speaking at the George Washington Symposium at Mount Vernon, organized by the Fred W. Smith National Library ...

On Sunday, 5 March, Erica Armstrong Dunbar will speak in Portsmouth, New Hampshire , about her new book Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Rel...

As I reported yesterday, George Washington has been our richest President so far. Most of his property consisted of land, both plantation...

As I wrote yesterday, Martha Washington ’s son John Parke Custis is believed to have had a child by an enslaved woman named Ann Dandridg...