Explore George Washington’s complicated relationship with slavery, his presidential actions, and the manumission of his enslaved workers.

Paintings by former President George W. Bush will be on display in a traveling exhibit at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Northwest D.C.

On October 19, 1781, the cause of liberty was immortalized on a riverside Virginia field when the Continental Army wrested victory from the arms of the ...

George Washington, who set long-followed precedents by voluntarily giving up first military and then civilian power, and who built the foundation of the nation’s wall between its military and partisan ...

Mount Vernon is 21 miles from my home. Lately I can almost feel the tremors from the nation’s general-turned-first-president spinning in his grave there. George Washington, who set long-followed ...

During his remarks for a recent dinner event at the American Cornerstone Institute, Donald Trump made the bold claim that George Washington would've voted for him. Army Captain Charged With 40 ...

The White House this week added a large George Washington statue to the Rose Garden at the specific request of President Donald Trump, according to a federal official and one White House official. The ...

Muhammad Yunus — Nobel laureate, interim leader of Bangladesh and friend to Utah — surprised many when he came to New York City last week to speak to the United Nations General Assembly accompanied by ...

The Washington Post’s new right-leaning opinion editor fired at least half a dozen staffers — some of whom learned of their terminations while observing the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur — ...

George Clooney recently told E! News that “Ocean’s 14” is likely going to film next year with original franchise stars Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle expected to return. The ...

The USS George Washington had previously served as the Forward-Deployed Naval Forces-Japan (FDNF-J) carrier, beginning in 2008—also making it the first nuclear-powered warship to fill that role. The ...

Three miles south of Windsor Castle, in the western exurbs of London, stands a 25-ton equestrian statue of King George III, cast from old cannons in the decade after his death in 1820. Dressed as ...