The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

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The latter findings were unearthed from five storage pits, Smithsonian Magazine reported ... the residence of the first U.S. President, George Washington in Virginia. Mount Vernon, the sprawling ...

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Gleason also assists in fundraising for Smithsonian initiatives tied with the 250th anniversary ... of advancement of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

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When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...

In the early 20th century, Davis commissioned an art student, Florence Harris, to travel to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., to create reproductions of famous paintings by George ...

But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... Claire Jerry is the Political History curator at the Smithsonian Institution.