The convention included some of the nation’s most respected leaders, including Gen. George Washington, 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Virginia legislator James Madison, and the young firebrand ...

Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the greatest breakup letter ever written. One could say that the audacious statement crafted by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...

The short stories and essays that took the top prizes in Bethesda Magazine and Bethesda Urban Partnership's annual writing ...

Take your pick. What sort of news do you want to consider? The truth that frogs eat mosquitoes, an opinion that frogs are not eating properly, or do you want to believe that if you kiss enough frogs ...

George Washington's return of power set the country on a unique path, one that rejected monarchs in favor of civilian rule ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to replace the colonies' part-time militias with a full-time army – and ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...

Americans across the country remembered George Floyd five years after he was killed by police, ... of every paragraph, ... the mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, ...

May 1, 2025—Today, TIME publishes “Five Years Later: America Looks for a Way Forward After George Floyd,” a special report released ahead of the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.

George Washington: The ‘American ... and essays published about his faith since 1800 have advanced ideological agendas and recounted pious fables about Washington that have little basis in ...

In the next paragraph of his address, Washington almost can’t imagine “an extremity of this kind.” He includes a comment that rings through the years from 1796 to January 6, 2021: ...