George Goss

George Goss was the assistant editor and director of video production at American Heritage from 2019-2020. In 2017, he graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Since graduation, he built a podcast studio in Kansas City, interned in the White House Photo Office, and worked as a multimedia journalist and studio manager for the Arlington Catholic Herald. He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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A New Website About Colonial Taverns, Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books | Vol. 64, No. 5

American Heritage is launching a major effort to research and promote historic taverns from the Founding era.

Papa Hemingway Liberates Paris, September/October 2019 | Vol. 64, No. 4

Seventy-five years ago, Ernest Hemingway and a historian were among the first Americans to enter Paris as guns were still firing.

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Announcing a Major New Website on Colonial Taverns

American Heritage is launching a major effort to research and promote historic taverns from the Founding era. A comprehensive website about historic taverns is much needed — there’s no info in one place on the Internet. Some taverns from the Colonial era sit on street corners where ancient Indian…

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