How George Washington’s birthday became a national holiday
George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating the first U.S. president on Monday.
Letter George Washington wrote in N.J. in 1777 is for sale. Here’s the price tag.
George Washington was commanding the Continental Army and staying in Morristown when he wrote an optimistic letter on the prospects of winning the Revolutionary War despite a recent defeat. His words ...
How George Washington's Silence Shaped America's Most Powerful Office
Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...
George Washington Cut Six Sentences From His Farewell Address. They’re Haunting Me Now.
The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...
Rare 240-year-old George Washington war letter comes up for sale
On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...
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Mary Ball Washington, George’s single mother, often gets overlooked – but she’s well worth saluting
Mary Washington helped her son develop into the leader he became. While her son was the subject of several portrait artists, ...
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George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways
In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and primary author of the Declaration of Independence. In Arkansas, it's Daisy ...