When George Washington dispatched Benedict Arnold on a mission to court French Canadians’ support for the American Revolution in 1775, he cautioned Arnold not to let their religion get in the way.

Thompson, a research specialist at Mt. Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in the slave ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house ... economy, and often religion.“Fire and water are not more heterogeneous than the different colonies of North America,” one British ...