<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Although it has been disparaged as “General Washington’s Sewing Circle,” this venture was the first nationwide female organization in America</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The ground rules have changed drastically since 1789. Abigail Adams, stifled in her time, would have loved being First Lady today.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A curious discovery on the Florida seashore, when a water cannon destroyed a suspicious package later found to contain </span><span class="body"><span class="body">miniature portraits by the celebrated American painter Gilbert Stuart</span></span></p>
