Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in 1947, imposing a two-term limit after more than 170 years of George Washington’s ...

America’s political parties weren’t supposed to wield the power they have today. In fact, George Washington warned us about ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

Our political chemistry set came in a box illustrated with George Washington’s happy humans, full of all the ingredients required for political experimentation. But, like an unsupervised 10-year-old ...

White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...

By the early 19th century, rivalries among political factions in the new government led to the creation of a competitive party system ... The earliest objects in this group commemorate George ...