June 2020 Newsletter June 2020: JFK, Books by the Barrel, and kids at the sea, spending a summer without TV. Read More
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November-December 2017 — The Art of Dining at Mount Vernon “George Washington always paid keen attention to his dining spaces and their furnishings; mealtime rituals provided opportunities to present himself... Read More
October 2017 — Teens Are Following in Lincoln’s Footsteps “We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With... Read More
September 2017 — Have You Been Inside George Washington’s 16-Sided Barn? Did you know that George Washington invented and designed a 16-sided treading barn for processing wheat on his plantation at Dogue... Read More
August 2017 —In Memoriam: Author Tom Fleming Provided Insight Into “The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers” “How do you write a book?” 24-year-old Thomas Fleming asked best-selling writer Fulton Oursler in 1951. “Write four pages a... Read More
July 2017 — Celebrate America’s Independence With a Trip Back to 1776 A lot was happening in the Colonies during the summer of 1776. On July 2nd, the legal separation of the... Read More
June 2017 — Learn to Think Like a Historian at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Fred W. Smith National Library It was the day before the presidential inauguration of 2017 when a school bus filled with students from Lake Forest... Read More
May 2017 — Inside Monticello: Historian Susan Stein Takes the Grateful American™ Foundation Through Thomas Jefferson’s Home Susan Stein has studied and written about one of the nation’s most intriguing Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, for more than 20... Read More
