And no one is more appealing than George Washington. Tom Nichols in The Atlantic was only the latest in a long line of writers seeking and finding in Washington a vision of moral rectitude and ...

The congregation was led by the Rev. George Keith, a surveyor who drew ... The church served as a hospital during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, and legend has it that one of the wooden pews ...

presidential history aficionados may be particularly interested in an auction later in the month that has objects on sale ranging from a lock of George Washington’s hair to a flag that ...

The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington returned to the Yokosuka base near Tokyo on Friday, its second deployment to Japan, in a show of the Navy's continuing presence in the ...

A lock of President George Washington’s hair and a whole slew of other rare presidential memorabilia will be put up for auction later this month as the country learns who the next president will be.

George Washington emerged as the clear front-runner for the presidency in the US elections George Washington stood on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City on April 30 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. George Washington notably declared American democracy to be “an experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people”.

It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, or in 1789, when George Washington ... down among Washington’s descendants before being sold to the government in 1878.

When the British attacked Long Island in August, Washington’s troops faced heavy volleys of musket fire, fusillades of ...