The administration has ordered that further changes be made to Independence National Historical Park, according to internal ...

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come As a 26-year-old colonel, Washington ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as ...

Pierre L'Enfant designed the look of the nation's capital but died in obscurity.

It has been years of planning and executing, but the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate is complete just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday. “If ...

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one ...

I grew up a few miles from where George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian mercenary soldiers stationed in Trenton, N.J. Down on his ...

File photo: John Godzieba, as Gen. George Washington, second right, stands in a boat during a reenactment of Washington's daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the Delaware River in Washington Crossing, ...

A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past. Paintings of ...

Next month, Christie’s is christening America’s 250th birthday with its largest Americana Week ever. The nine-sale, 700-lot extravaganza will feature treasures like a signed copy of the Emancipation ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

Glenn Beck wants you to know that the “final chapter” of his career involves interviewing a cartoon George Washington. Last weekend, Beck dropped a preview of “George AI,” an AI chatbot he’s been ...