Washington Retires
Establishing a precedent broken only once in American history, George Washington declines to serve a third term as President. Instead, he retires to Mount Vernon and dies there in 1799. John Adams succeeds him as the Chief Executive.
See the events in Williamsburg and other cities that created a revolutionary movement.
Follow the ways that religion informed revolutionary thought.
From clothing to theater, trace the impact of taste on empire and revolution.
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