A decade apart, two visits to Monticello and Mount Vernon reveal more than architectural differences. They expose how ideas, labor, and interpretation shape the way we remember the Founding Fathers—and how those stories continue to change with time. Read more

I was predestined to want to see more. My great-grandma on my mom’s side grew up in Maine, joined the Army during World War II, lived in Germany for a time after the war, and traveled to the Great Wall of China. My dad was his own kind of traveler in the Air Force, at Read more