For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with ...

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped ...

George Washington earned his stripes, tested his resolve and learned from his defeats in western Pennsylvania.

There was once an American who voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In this year of the nation’s 250th ...

SNL’s George Washington sketch featuring Kenan Thompson and Nate Bargatze explains how early ideas shaped American measurements, sports and daily systems in a historical setting.

In the mid-1700s, any traveler of a certain class knew he was welcome to a bed and hot meal at George Washington’s Virginia estate, Mount Vernon. But contrary to customs of the time, Washington didn’t ...

Long before L. Frank Baum wrote the book on which the movie was based; hot-air balloons were already part of American celebrations. In fact, the nation’s first president, George Washington, had a ...