Editorials

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Uncommon Sense — Women Also Know Washington

The last decade has witnessed a noticeable uptick of works on Washington authored by women, with more to come in the pipeline.

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History Extra (BBC History Magazine) — 8 Facts You Might Not Know About the White House

How much do you know about the history of the White House in Washington DC, which has been home to all US presidents since John Adams in 1800 (including the current president, Donald Trump)? Writing for HistoryExtra, White House historian Lindsay M Chervinsky shares eight surprising facts about the famous building — from how it was built by enslaved workers, to the year it caught fire…

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The Docket at Law and History Review — George Washington’s Constitutional Theory

Washington intentionally left behind very little written documentation of his ideas about the Constitution or how he interpreted the presidency. But that didn’t mean he didn’t have ideas about how the Constitution should operate or the powers of the executive.

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Digital Encyclopedia, George Washington’s Mount Vernon — Acts of Congress

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The Panorama — High Politics and Physical Space: Rethinking How We Commemorate Place

How can we use the digital re-creation of historic places (and thus the commemoration of these spaces) to bring new viewers into the field and bring together different historical approaches?

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The Washington Post, Made by History — Trump’s Cabinet is still full of scandals. History shows that he may regret that.

The perils of allowing scandals to linger

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The Junto — Wonder and Historical Knowledge: Reflections from the Omohundro Institute Annual Conference

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The Washington Post, Made by History — Why George Washington rejected a military parade in his honor (and why Donald Trump should, too)

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The Junto — Why and How You Should Build a Web Presence

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The Republic Blog — A Roundtable Done Right: The Art of History in an Age of Revolutions

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Process: A Blog for American History — “What About Early America?”: Panel Recap

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History News Network — Trump’s Cabinet Picks Break with a Tradition Going Back to George Washington

President-Elect Trump is now enjoying the benefit of Washington’s cabinet legacy as he chooses his department secretaries and cabinet members. Yet, in at least one crucial way, Trump has bucked a long-standing cabinet trend that began with Washington and ran nearly undisturbed for twenty-two decades.

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TIME — Donald Trump, George Washington and the President’s Cabinet

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Quill Project at Pembroke College — Advising the President

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Age of Revolutions Blog — Washington’s Presidency: How the Revolutionary War Shaped the Executive Branch

Washington’s reliance on his Revolutionary War experience ensured that the American Revolution shaped the development of the executive branch long after the Treaty of Paris ended the war on April 15, 1783.