President Coolidge accepts Hayley Lever's painting of the presidential yacht, Mayflower (1924) (Smithsonian Archives of American Art) ...

Grace T. Lewis's Mt. Vernon, circa 1910 In 1915, Miss Lewis started as a clerk in the high school business office; within s...

Zayda Zabriskie, 1914 It’s surprising to see Romer Shawhan’s name listed as one of the ushers at Zayda’s first wedding in 1911. She ...

My high school boyfriend emigrated from Brazil to the U.S. around 1960. Crazy in love, I tried to pry that story out of him, looking...

Violet Romer, 1910 It made complete sense that they lived in a quintessential American house: an elegant Foursquare with generous ...

I still remember the 1970s classrooms in Mt. Vernon High School, not that they were distinguished. Loose chairs and desks strewn around ...