Do you know which summer movies you’ll be watching this season? Below, I am sharing my annual Summer Movie Calendar. So yes, that means the summer season is arriving, and that is the best time of the year for the world of movies. Through the Founders Online website, you will be able to read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic.It’s about time to be sitting by the pool all day working on our tan.

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with the University of Virginia Press to create the Founders Online site and make freely available online the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells an unknown story of the Revolution and is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.įor further book selections please visit our Books Collection The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped - thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception-and proved an adept spymaster. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself.

Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors-including the spymaster at the heart of it all. Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.

Washington's Spies by Alexander Rose