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Women have been integrated into the barracks, but the Army has built separate lavatories, and both sexes will be required to wear bathrobes in the hallways. Like Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, which have also just admitted their first women, West Point is determined to treat men and women...
England and her colonies (now to be known as states) have come to a parting, but not everything need end in bloodshed and hatred. That was well demonstrated by Maryland's Governor Robert Eden, who stayed at ins post long after ins fellow Governors had fled. For ins safety...
Jonathan Boucher of Annapolis was equally vehement ("If you are wrong, as in some degree I think you are," he wrote to George Washington, "it is my duty frankly to tell you so, and yours to listen to me with patience"). Indeed, when 20 Patriots gathered threateningly around his pulpit...
Yet Peale almost failed to become a painter at all. He was born with the least of advantages. His father came to the Colonies 40 years ago not because he wanted to but because he was banished for embezzling post office funds. After settling his family in Maryland, across the...
By chance, he encountered an amateur painter, who showed him some of his works. "They were miserably done," Peale recalled later. "Had they been better, perhaps they would not have led ... to the idea of attempting anything in that way." He got some instruction from his neighbor, the established portraitist...