That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is probably still the best summation of the man who, over a hard but resolute ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George ... Washington's prompt attempts to smooth over the breach. Letters written in the aftermath show an injured young ...

The Book of George is a mordantly humorous exploration of the arrested development of the modern man. George embodies the archetypal traits of the Peter Pan syndrome, depicted by his emotional ...

“It’s a plainer look, so we think it was part of him trying to show himself as a civilian, as a man of the people, not as an elitist,” says Amanda Isaac, a curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn ... Perhaps the most notable difference between Washington's inauguration and more modern ones is the location.