Introduction: An atlas tells a life story -- Virginia, Barbados, and the Ohio country -- From the Monongahela to Massachusetts -- The siege of Boston -- The American invasion of Canada -- From the Hudson to Philadelphia and back -- The war in the South -- After the Revolution : uniting an expanding nation -- Danger on the frontiers, upheaval in Europe -- Grains in the northwest and southwest, trouble with France -- Back to the land, dividing Mount Vernon -- Appendix: Contents of the Yale George Washington atlas.