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Learn more why Ellis describes slavery and the treatment of Native Americans as great contradictions in American history

"Our founders put into our Constitution a prohibition on government officials, including the president, accepting payments, gifts from foreign governments," according to Kathleen Clark, law professor

A conversation about U.S. history, the presidents and slavery and how we teach it

A series of historical documents sheds light on the final moments of George Washington, whose cause of death has been a mystery for hundreds of years.

Presidents Day is observed on George Washington's birthday, Feb. 18. Follow a tour guide at Washington's Mount Vernon estate, who is also a distant relation of an enslaved person at the former plantation, who offers his perspective about American history, slavery and the founding fathers.