click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

Enslaved women in the 18th and early 19th century were often forced to labor in the fields or in an urban setting like ...

3. George Washington and his wife Martha didn’t have biological children together. An engraving of Martha Washington, who married George Washington in 1759. | GeorgiosArt/iStock via Getty Images ...

Researchers just uncovered two 18th-century cherry bottles in the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon home. The green bottles contained a liquid researchers believe may be groundwater, as well ...

History is littered with tales of famous figures and their preferred cocktails, and legend has it George Washington was ...

Martha saw them off. “I hope you will stand firm,” she told Henry and Pendleton, adding, “I know George will.” The six-foot-two-inch Washington had a way of affecting other men simply by ...

George Washington wore many hats ... Source: mountvernon.org In 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a young widow with two children and a great deal of wealth. When Washington was elected ...

The painting is the first of seven portraits of Washington made from life by Peale and the only portrait of Washington that ...

White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.