FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Nov. 20, 2014) -- For many Americans, George Washington Carver's name conjures images of peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. To others, his achievements as a scientist ...

and he behaves like an icon,” said Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “His Excellency: George Washington.” “I could see him sitting at the head of the table at City Tavern ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s, he developed hundreds of products using peanuts ...

Now a museum, this 18th-century plantation house (also known as Bush Hill House) was the base for George Washington and his sick half-brother Lawrence (who had tuberculosis) for two months in 1751.