"The college dreamed up the George Washington Book Prize 'to give more prominence to this Founding Father.' Not that prominence should be a problem for a guy who has his name on the nation's capital and his mug on Mount Rushmore."
—Columnist Laura Vozzella on the awarding of the 2006 George Washington Book Prize ("The winner's Ben. Bye, George." The Baltimore Sun, May 28, 2006)
"When students at Washington College describe one of the campus's most cherished traditions, their friends at other institutions don't always believe them. And why should they? Hundreds of naked students meeting at the campus flagpole at midnight? It sounds more like an urban legend than a cherished piece of campus culture."
—The Chronicle of Higher Education finds that WC's May Day is not just a legend; "Naturel History," published May 5, 2006
"Indeed, sometimes kids are exceptionally creative because of what they don't know, says Lauren Littlefi eld, a psychologist at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. 'Kids can think more freely than adults because of the limitations of their knowledge,' she says."
—Lauren Littlefield, assistant professor of psychology, quoted in "Backstory: Children of Invention" by Eileen Zimmerman, The Christian Science Monitor, April 24, 2006
"In a softly lit crypt beneath the chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy, a massive sarcophagus of veined marble rests on the backs of four bronze dolphins. At a respectful distance from the tomb, two midshipmen with gleaming swords stand vigil over a body and a mystery nearly as old as our country itself."
—C.V. Starr Scholar Adam Goodheart on the mystery of "Who's really buried in John Paul Jones's tomb?" ("Home is the Sailor," Smithsonian Magazine, April 2006)
"In this estimable volume, Richard Striner effectively demolishes the fashionable myths of Lincoln the Reluctant Emancipator and Lincoln the White Supremacist. Deeply committed to the antislavery cause, the sixteenth president was, as Striner persuasively argues, 'a fervent idealist' and 'an artist in the Machiavellian uses of power.'"
—Michael Burlingame reviewing Professor Richard Striner's Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery in The Weekly Standard, April 3, 2006
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