At his introductory press conference in April 2019 on the morning when Pope Francis had named him as the new archbishop of ...

“The sun is rising. Nobody’s waiting for us. Nobody’s stopping for us,” said Soulis. “We know there’s good pieces (among ...

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At a historical state house museum there are many things one would expect to see. Restorations of Senate and House chambers?

The holiday hasn’t been celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday of Feb. 22, or any other president’s birthday, for more than 50 years. Presidents Day became the popular name after the holiday was ...

Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...

As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others ...

His loyalties were to his nation and its young and fragile Constitution. Eventually, he put meaning to those loyalties by voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term. That set a precedent ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king.