The Circus Procession  by Evaleen Stein Oh, hurry! hurry! here they come, The band in front with the big bass drum And blaring bu...

May-Baskets by Evaleen Stein Let us take our baskets early To the meadows green, While the wild-flowers still are pearly  With...

HALLOWE'EN by John Kendrick Bangs BRING forth the raisins and the nuts - To-night All-Hallow's Spectre struts Along the ...

Samples of lessons and crafts about Indigenous peoples.        Indigenous peoples or Natives (formerly Indians) held undisputed posse...

Gilbert Stuart's unfinished 1796 painting of   George Washington is also known as   The Athenaeum , his most celebrated  and fa...

       Washington declined a third election, delivered his famous farewell address and retired to Mount Vernon in 1797. Thereafter he devo...

       During this term international affairs for a time overshadowed domestic issues. A war between France and England vastly aroused the...

       Five years after the signing of the peace treaty a new crisis called Washington again into public life. Under the Articles of Confe...

       On June 15, 1775, two months after the Battle' of Lexington, Washington was unanimously chosen by Congress to be commander in c...

Washington's Home in Mount Vernon .        The period between the close of the French and Indian War and the outbreak of the Revol...

       Not long before he died Lawrence Washington had used his influence to have his brother appointed an adjutant-general over one of th...

       The family of the first President came of a line of well-born Englishmen. They were the Washingtons of Sulgiave Manor, in Northampt...