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

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 ...

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

Olivia Dunne and the LSU gymnastics team mourned the death of Tigers track star Dillon Reidenauer during their meet against ...

Boston Athenaeum head of special collections John Buchtel said because George Washington died without children, he willed the books to his nephew. They were later split among the president’s ...

A 40-year-old Spokane man died when he lost control of the car he was driving, hit a retaining wall and rolled Saturday in George, Washington, according to Washington State Patrol. Ivan Torres ...

Sports commentator and author John Feinstein has passed away at the age of 69 on March 13, 2025. He was at his brother’s home in McLean, Virginia, reported The Washington Post.

Former President George W. Bush is remembering former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming for his accomplishments, friendship ...

In the latest sign that the anti-police fever that swept the nation post-George Floyd has waned, elected leaders across the ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... will that the enslaved people at his home would be freed upon the death of his wife. He also allowed both free and enslaved Black people ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s ... sank into soon after his death. Yet for each successive ...