America’s First Action Hero. Love, Arnold.” That was the message on the wreath that Arnold Schwarzenegger placed at the tomb ...

A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...

John Hancock was once one of the wealthiest merchants in New England and among the most popular and well-respected figures of ...

Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

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In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled over ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.