George Washington.
By Hugh Brogan and Charles Mosley
Father of his Country. The hallowed phrase expresses everything that was unique about President Washington. For all other Presidents - even Thomas Jefferson - the office was the climax of their lives, their greatest opportunity for fame. Washington alone was greater than his post.
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Atlanta's Robert Burns Cottage
By Frank Shaw
One of Atlanta's best-kept secrets is the Robert Burns Cottage built in 1910. In the 1970s, the United States Department of the Interior recognized the Burns Cottage and designated it to be forever on the National Register of Historic Places in America. As the pamphlet from The Burns Club of Atlanta says, "The only place to see one like it is in Alloway, Ayrshire, in southwest Scotland..."
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Burns Scholar Ross Roy Celebrates 80th Birthday
By Frank R. Shaw
August 20, 2004 was a special day for Burns scholars around the world - America's beloved G. Ross Roy celebrated his 80th birthday. Participants gathered at the University of South Carolina in Columbia to join the festivities honouring Professor Roy and his lovely wife, Lucie. The program speakers paid personal tribute to Dr. & Mrs. Roy at a dinner the night before the symposium at a local hotel.
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Thomas Jefferson
By Hugh Brogan and Charles Mosley
Genius is easier to recognize than define, but no one would deny that Thomas Jefferson had it, alone of American Presidents. Whatever he attempted, he mastered, except the art of public oratory. Writer, architect, scientist, musician, inventor; in everything he showed outstanding ability, and more crucially, in everything had an individual touch. But his master-art was politics.
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The Stuart Family of Virginia - Friends of Robert E. Lee, Famous Southern General
By Avon Edward Foote
Within a few hours of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on 14 April 1865, Northern newspapers published in special editions quotes from U. S. Government sources linking the murder to a Confederate plot that officials charged was coordinated in Richmond, Virginia. The day after Lincoln's death, The New York Times reported that a letter had been found in John Wilkes Booth's trunk at the National Hotel in Washington implicating Confederate involvement in the President's assassination.
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US Presidents: Preface
By Hugh Brogan
The presidency is so inextricably mixed up with American history, has both shaped and been shaped by it to such a degree, that no one can ever finish exploring all the ramifications.
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American Orders of Chivalry
By Duane L.C.M. Galles
Titles and decorations are things that few Americans have had to contend with, thanks to the Federal Constitution of 1787. The furore which followed the establishment of the Society of the Cincinnati in 1783 left an indelible mark on America.
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John Gore (1718-1796) Of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Gore Roll
By D. Brenton Simons
Among the heraldic treasures owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, are two illustrated rolls of arms: the Promptuarium Armorum, featuring scores of English arms, and the Gore Roll of Arms, consisting chiefly of American arms. The Gore Roll is widely considered to be the oldest surviving catalogue of American arms.
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G. Ross Roy's Library
By Frank R. Shaw, FSA Scot
I recently met a most remarkable and charming man, G. Ross Roy, with a most remarkable Robert Burns library. I can identify with the man and his books, his passion and love of books, and of Burns in particular. This story began in 1892 when Charlotte Spriggings wrote in a Burns book the following words to "her friend", W. Ormiston Roy. These two later wed, and in 1958, G. Ross Roy, their grandson, inherited the Burns collection of his grandparents.
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