Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As ...

When the weight of the free world got heavy, many U.S. presidents turned to a familiar cure: a rod, a reel, and a few quiet ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The founders didn’t foresee flight — but they knew a throne when they saw one. And to this George Washington scholar, Qatar’s $400 million jet gift to President Donald Trump reads like a ...

President Trump boasted of his accomplishments in his first 43 days in office, comparing the start of his presidency to George Washington's and blasting egg prices under President Biden.

Mason decried it as an invitation to tyranny. Washington, who maintained a studied silence from the president's chair, was the solution. He didn’t know it yet, but it’d had already ...

Washington’s first Thanksgiving as a president may have not been tremendously successful, given the scarce attendance at the church service. Yet, as a scholar writing a biography about Washington, I ...

President George Washington aimed to unify the country with his first Thanksgiving message. Getty Images Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke ...

Last November, during a symposium at Mount Vernon on democracy, John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington’s ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.