Did George Washington have a British accent? As America’s first president, you’d hope he’d somewhat resemble what we all know now to be a US dialect, however, there’s not a single audio record to ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

In 1848, George C. Washington sold his collection to Vermonter Henry Stevens, one of America’s earliest antiquarian booksellers. Stevens also happened to be an acquisitions agent for the British ...