Joseph Manca talked about his book, George Washington’s Eye: Landscape, Architecture and Design at Mount Vernon, in which he talks about how the grounds and architecture at Mount Vernon, his ...

WASHINGTON — Despite what he looks like on the dollar bill, it turns out George Washington may have been kind of hot. This is unsettling for those of us who prefer to think of our first ...

In his latest book, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown,” he picks up this saga in 1780, as Washington and his Continental Army, ...

HANSEN: George Washington became the youngest official surveyor in Virginia history. How did his surveying skills help him later in life? Mr. CHERNOW: It sharpened his eye in terms of looking at ...

How George Washington Did His Hair Despite the powder and curls it wasn’t a wig at all. ... The style he favored wasn’t fancy, though it may appear so to modern eyes.

Washington probably used a finely milled (expensive) product, which was applied, cloud-like, to his head. To keep from gagging in a powder fog, it was common to cover the face with a cone of ...