Dec 15 Watch 4:45 Bloodletting and blisters: Solving the medical mystery of George Washington’s death By PBS NewsHour Learn the gruesome details of President George Washington’s final hours on the 215th anniversary of his death. The retired commander-in-chief woke up at 2 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1799, with a sore throat. After a series of medical procedures, including… Continue watching
Dec 14 Dec. 14, 1799: The excruciating final hours of President George Washington By Dr. Howard Markel It was a house call no physician would relish. On Dec. 14, 1799, three doctors were summoned to Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia to attend to a critically ill, 67-year-old man who happened to be known as “the father… Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch Stop expecting American presidents to be great and allow them to be good, says author By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Oct 08 Why Washington — not Lincoln or FDR — had the hardest job of any U.S. president By Margaret Warner George Washington isn't the sexiest of American presidents in our public imagination, nor the most accessible. Perhaps we are all too weighed down by the "father of his country" image, the cherry tree myth, his powdered wig and bone-and-ivory (no,… Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch Why George Washington — not Lincoln of FDR — had the hardest job of any U.S. president By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Feb 17 Photo: Washington’s false teeth By News Desk https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/435447570140106752 Historian Michael Beschloss shares this photo of one set of President Washington's false teeth. Mount Vernon has a wonderful writeup of the first president's complete dental history, noting that "When Washington was inaugurated President in 1789, only one… Continue reading
Jan 20 Club of 16: If You Thought Getting Elected the First Time Was Hard… By Meena Ganesan When he retakes the oath of office Monday, President Barack Obama will join an exclusive club. Obama becomes the 16th of the nation's 44 presidents who've been re-elected to serve as commander-in-chief for two consecutive terms. Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch Troubling New Signs Plague European, U.S. Economies Even as British Prime Minister David Cameron defended the notion of austerity, governments across Europe were toppling or falling back into recession. Ray Suarez and George Washington University's Scheherazade Rehman discuss problems and potential solutions, both in the U.S. and… Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch How Will FCC’s Google Street View Fine Shape Data Privacy Rules? How Will FCC's Google Street View Fine Shape Data Privacy Rules?… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch How Abraham Lincoln Shaped American Politics, Popular Culture How Abraham Lincoln Shaped American Politics, Popular Culture Post Assassination… Continue watching