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This program is for a special monody, also known as an ode, that was likely performed at Philadelphia’s Southwark Theater on Dec. 7, 1784.

This brass and iron chamber door handle was removed from the Market Street house that George Washington occupied in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention and as President.

This 1955 Colombian postage stamp shows General George Washington in the company of José Francisco de San Martín (1778-1850) and Simón Bolívar (1783-1830).

This register documents the hundreds of people who visited the construction site of the Washington Memorial Chapel and the Valley Forge Museum of American History between 1906 and 1910.

Titled A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin’s memoir is one of the best resources to learn about common soldiers during the Revolutionary War.

Abner Weston, a corporal in the Massachusetts militia, kept this pocket diary in 1782 as a record of his wartime experiences between campaigns.

William Duncan, a Baltimore cooper-turned-soldier, wrote to this letter home on Oct. 7, 1777, three days after fighting in the “very hot” Battle of Germantown near British-occupied Philadelphia.

An elaborate stamp like this example, which included royal symbols and the word “America,” was printed or attached to the paper under the Stamp Act.

Astronaut John Glenn carried this reproduction of General George Washington’s Headquarters Flag into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998.