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The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution External

Related Blog Posts

• Parallel Lives: King George and George Washington, Featured in an Upcoming Exhibit
• Washington’s Plot to Kidnap a British Prince
• George Washington and the Federal Workforce
• George Washington’s Uncle Writes Home: The Letterbook of Joseph Ball
• George Washington and the “Spirit of Association”
• Made at the Library with Cassandra Good, author of First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America
• George Washington, “The Greatest Man in the World”?
• Made at the Library: Bruce Ragsdale’s “Washington at the Plow”
• “Bridgerton” and the Real Queen Charlotte
• Inauguration Stories: George Washington’s Surprising Speech
• A President and a King, George Washington and King George III, in a Dangerous Year

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Library of Congress Magazine

• Library of Congress Magazine, January/February 2025

Papers of George and Martha Washington

• The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
• Founders Online, National Archives, including the modern published edition of George Washington’s papers
• Editors of the Washington Papers. The Papers of Martha Washington. University of Virginia Press, 2022.

Papers of George III and Queen Charlotte

• Royal Archives Online External
• Aspinall, A., ed. The Later Correspondence of George III. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1962–1970.
• Fortescue, John, ed. The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783, Printed from the Original Papers in the royal Archives at Windsor Castle. London: Macmillan and Co., 1927–1928.
• Namier, L.B. Additions and Corrections to Sir John Fortescue’s Edition of the Correspondence of King George the Third. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1937.

Biographies, Monographs, and Articles

• Black, Jeremy. George III: America’s Last King. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
• Calloway, Colin G. The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Chernow, Ron. George Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
• Colley, Linda. “The Apotheosis of George III: Loyalty, Royalty, and the British Nation, 1760–1820.” Past and Present 102 (February 1984): 94–129.
• Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. New York: 37 Ink/Atria, 2017.
• Fraser, Flora. Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III. New York: Knopf, 2005.
• Fraser, Flora. The Washingtons: George and Martha,“join'd by friendship, crown'd by love.” New York: Knopf, 2015.
• Good, Cassandra A. First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America. Toronto: Hanover Square Press, 2023.
• Hadlow, Janice. A Royal Experiment, the Private Life of King George III. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.
• Macalpine, Ida and Richard Hunger. George III and the Mad-Business. London: Allen Lane, 1969.
• Orr, Clarissa Campbell, ed. Queenship in Britain, 1660–1837: Royal Patronage, Court Culture, and Dynastic Politics. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002.
• Peters, Timothy J. and D. Wilkinson. ‘King George III and Porphyria: A Clinical Re-examination of the Historical Evidence.” History of Psychiatry 21 (March 2010): 3–19.
• Ragsdale, Bruce. Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2021.
• Roberts, Andrew. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. New York: Viking, 2021.
• Saxton, Martha. The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
• Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

For Young Readers

• Allen, Thomas B. George Washington, Spymaster: How America Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2005.
• Chandra, Deborah, and Madeleine Comora. George Washington’s Teeth. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2003.
• Davis, Kenneth C. In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
• Dunbar, Erica Armstrong and Kathleen Van Cleve. Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away. New York: Aladdin, 2019.
• Fritz, Jean. Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1977. Pictures by Tomie de Paola.
• Schanzer, Rosalyn. George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides. Washington DC: National Geographic, 2004.
• Sheinkin, Steve. King George, What was his Problem? Everything your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell you about the American Revolution. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2005.