The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural ...

Instead, Harding recounts his subject’s personal and professional life by examining a dozen or so of the more than 6,000 titles Weidenfeld brought out before his death at age 96 in 2016.

Hulu’s upcoming series “Washington Black“, based on Esi Edugyan’s acclaimed novel, is set to be an exciting mix of adventure, ...

The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

George Washington’s Runaway Slave, Harry. ... but at the end of his life the couple owned 317 slaves together. ... Washington’s personal servant, ...

Representative George Santos, the New York Republican who has acknowledged inventing significant parts of his life story, said his work in Congress “is not about my personal life” and vowed ...

We have George Washington and our founders—and Moses Seixas too—to thank for it. And two letters written on the same summer day back in 1791. Vince Benedetto is the founder and president of ...

They were later split among the president’s great-nephews. And one of those great-nephews, George Corbin Washington, was “always hard up for cash,” Buchtel noted. In 1848, George C. Washington sold ...

At the time of Washington’s death in 1799, there were 317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon, his home and plantation in Virginia, including 123 people owned by Washington himself. “George ...