Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that ...

The Jean Bonnet Tavern rises from the Pennsylvania landscape like something from a history book illustration – all sturdy ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

The wait was over for more than 100 people as they finally got to call the U.S. “home.” And what better place to do it than ...

Is Donald Trump more like George Washington or King George? Here's how our president is ruling like a monarch.

On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

Americans spent an estimated total of $13.3 billion on food and beverages for the Fourth of July. As we come together to ...

Events in the Capital Region this week, from Doug E. Fresh, Barenaked Ladies and Jessie Mueller, to the New York City Ballet, ...

Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As the oft-quoted theologian and author James Freeman Clarke is credited with ...

Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization.

Mariners starter George Kirby shined against the Angels on Sunday, drawing a compliment from veteran skipper Ron Washington.