Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. In their day, those great men sometimes quarreled and ...

Above all, Washington was a farmer. On his Mount Vernon estate, in northern Virginia, he grew tobacco and wheat and operated a gristmill. After his second term as president, he built a profitable ...

Especially there. It’s our civic responsibility to remember all that was George Washington, at the very least on Presidents Day. Michael Peregrine is a Chicago lawyer. Submit a letter ...

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Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

George Washington was born on Feb. 22 ... and made it available to all services, including some civilians. Civilians who worked with the military, like Red Cross workers or war reporters, remained ...