Boston Athenaeum head of special collections John Buchtel said because George Washington died without children, he willed the books to his nephew. They were later split among the president’s ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan (WAVY) — Two Navy sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington died shortly after arriving at the ship’s new homeport in Japan, according to a NavyTimes ...

Located on the Rappahanock River, Washington would spend most of his childhood there. George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings ...

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge ... The marriage lasted 40 years, until Washington's death in 1799. In his final will, he stipulated that upon his wife's death ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until ...