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npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-55401

Trump moves to scrub national parks sites of signs that cast America in a "negative light"

FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: Here's something you probably didn't learn about America's first president back in elementary school. Washington lived in Philadelphia when it was the temporary capital of the U.S. And there was this law back then that said enslaved people who remain for more than six months there could become free. But the president made sure that didn't happen. Michelle Flamer explains.

MICHELLE FLAMER: George Washington would take the enslaved people and rotate them out of Philadelphia, sometimes just driving over to - in a carriage to New Jersey. He just did this so that they could not gain their freedom if they were here for longer than six months. So...

[i knew washington kept slaves but not how he kept them in slavery in philadelphia when they should have been freed.]

#trump#resist#slavery
Dining and Cooking

Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Drunken Loaf’ Is The Old-School Dish Nobody Wants Anymore

If you’re a history buff, then you may have spent some time wondering just what exactly our Founding Fathers liked to eat. For George Washington, one of his favorite dishes…
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Andrew Kuchling

YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST: A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by Alexis Coe is a fresh approach to writing a biography of this US Founding Father. In her introduction, the author talks about how most biographers are overly respectful and verbose, who go on at length about his masculine qualities. Coe sets out to write a book that's clearer-eyed about Washington's shortcomings, fairer to the women in Washington's life, and less focused on minute details of his military career.

I really liked how she covers the long series of Washington's battles in the Revolutionary War: it's in a 5-page table listing the battle, date, and outcome. Many discussions of battles turn into boring discussions of advances, retreats, and maneuvering the salient (whatever that is). I thought the tabular format was exactly the right amount of detail for me.

She also doesn't excuse his treatment of the enslaved people at Mount Vernon. Usually Washington is praised for freeing them in his will, but actually they would only have been freed on the death of his wife Martha. She became so worried that someone would bump her off that she emancipated them early. Martha Washington left own group of enslaved people to her four grandchildren, splitting up families and scattering them far apart.

Overall I really enjoyed this book & can recommend it, especially (like me) you're put off by the bulky worshipfulness of most presidential biographies.

#books#bookstodon#AlexisCoe
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Andrew Kuchling

I've started reading YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST: A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Alexis Coe and am really enjoying it so far.

In her preface, she notes that most biographies of Washington are written by men for other men -- she's the first woman to write one in over 40 years -- and this shapes their attitude toward the women in GW's life.

She includes this table, based on Ron Chernow's Pulitzer Prize-winning 928-page biography, titled "A Sampling of Ron Chernow's Descriptions of Mary Washington", who was GW's mother.

#books#bookstodon#biography
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