Encyclopedia profiles he first attorney general of Massachusetts, from 1777-1790, and state supreme court judge from 1790-1804.
Profiles the New York-born educator whose life was spent promoting the education of women and running women's colleges.
Served as postmaster general from 1791 to 1795 and as secretary of war, founding the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Resource devoted to the legacy of the Army's Quartermaster Generals features a tribute to the fourth man to hold the position.
Mary Hays gained her nickname carrying pitchers of water to her husband and other soldiers during the American Revolution's Battle of Monmouth.
Briefly profiles the father of Pocahontas who was chief of the Powhatan confederacy of Algonquian tribes in Virginia.
Read a biography of the Polish military leader who was exiled from Poland and became an honored general in the American Revolution.