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The Papers of George Washington. The Presidential Series, September 1788–March 1797 is an ongoing series of books that covers Washington's time served as the fledgling country's first President. The set includes papers written by the President as well as material presented to him during his presidency, and papers from his personal, social and ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Robert R. Livingston – Administered the oath of office to Washington, first term; Tobias Lear – personal secretary to General/President George Washington, serving him from 1784 until the former-president's death in 1799. Slave Trade Act of 1794 – Signed by Washington; George Washington Inaugural Bible; 1792 United States presidential election
This bibliography of George Washington is a selected list of written and published works about George Washington (1732–1799). A 2019 count estimated the number of books about George Washington at some nine hundred; add scholarly articles with Washington's name in the title and the count climbs to six thousand.
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
The book was another popular success and also the first book written and published by Irving in the United States since A History of New York in 1809. [66] In 1834, he was approached by fur magnate John Jacob Astor , who convinced him to write a history of his fur trading colony in Astoria, Oregon .
The book was also honored by the New-York Historical Society as the 2011 recipient of the American History Book Prize, which included an award of $50,000 and the title of American Historian Laureate for Chernow. [3] The book received positive reviews from Andrew Cayton and Janet Maslin of The New York Times. Both felt that Chernow had been able ...
Pages in category "Books about George Washington" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.