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Inventing American Diplomacy

In 1783, the expatriate artist Benjamin West began what became his most memorable painting, “The Peacemakers.” West intended to produce a group portrait of the diplomats whose negotiations resulted in the Treaty of Paris of 1783, but the British diplomats refused to sit for the...

Detail of a broadside promoting women’s suffrage. (GLC08963)

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Why We the People? Citizens as Agents of Constitutional Change

“We the People?” asked Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention to...

“His Excel: G: Washington,” by C. W. Peale, 1787.(LC-DIG-ppmsca-17515)

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George Washington and the Constitution

George Washington was...

Martha Washington. Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Martha Washington Creates the Role of First Lady

During nearly forty-one years of marriage, Martha and George Washington lived together in harmony and mutual enjoyment. Never did he play the overbearing patriarch nor she the querulous nag. Theirs was a peaceful domestic partnership, surrounded by family and...