Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of Georg

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" ... The details of Washington's 45-year-long campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon."--Jacket.

George Washington, acutely aware of the accomplishments and potential of the American Revolution, used his Mount Vernon estate both to preserve the memory of ev

"American historians began producing in-depth studies of slavery and slave life shortly after World War II, but it was not until the early 1980s that the countr