Gilbert Stuart, a Capturer of Presidents and Transmitter of History
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The Metropolitan Museum's show reveals the portraitist's bountiful range. No doubt about it, he was and remains one of our greatest American painters.
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MOUNT VERNON, Virginia  - Americans know George  Washington as the dour founding father with white hair and  ponytail depicted on U.S. currency, but most people have little  idea what the nation's first president really looked like  beyond this stock image.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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The Arthur M. Sackler Galleryâs show glows like a treasury, radiates like a compass and seems as rich with potential information as the World Wide Web.
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When the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and Revolutionary War hero, visited George Washington, he presented the father of our country with, among other things, two golden pheasants, two hounds and some mules.
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In the Lincoln Bedroom, President George W. Bush likes to show off one of the most treasured historical artifacts in the White House, a handwritten copy of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address.
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Foreign policy gurus, from Richard Holbrooke to Henry A. Kissinger, are providing advice to presidential candidates on a long hopeful march to the White House.
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A president who, for better or worse, has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to wield the powers of office.
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There is some magic in the fraternity of presidents. For the most most part they forgive one another for the insults they have endured on the political battlefield.
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An expansive talk with Sir Edmund Hillary about his historic ascent and the life and fame that came after
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Pomp and controversy attend the opening of Clinton's presidential archives.
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President George W. Bush was a governor in 1999 when his reading of a William Travis letter from the besieged Alamo stirred the American Ryder Cup team into a frenzy
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These images of the original manuscript of George Washington's resignation speech, which he delivered in
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Do U.S. voters really care that George W. Bush's favorite gun is the Winchester his father gave him, or that John Kerry likes fishing for blues and stripers? Millions might, which means candidates will keep talking to niche publications like Field & Stream.
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A 21st century visionary? A failed adventurer abroad? Six scholars suggest how history will judge George W. Bush's first term in office--and compare him with his predecessors
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L. Gordon Cooper was the real deal. He and his six colleagues - known as the Mercury Seven - inaugurated an age and captivated a generation of Americans.
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb.