Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

Columnist Charita Goshay writes that an effective American presidency embraces character and a sense of servant-leadership.

A great and confident nation that judges solely by merit welcomes immigrants with open arms. A weak, craven and cosseted ...

By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped ...

they will be transported back in time to the days of the American Revolution. Following dinner, Washington will bring history ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles of the American Revolution, disease posed a greater threat to his forces than British troops.

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution ... and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...

Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington never became ... and Hamilton firmly believed in the American cause, so he soon returned to duty ...

Cassandra Good is a historian and writer who has taught at Marymount University, George Washington University ... naval hero gained acclaim in the American Revolution, he met many adorers in ...

George Washington could have been a king. Even though they had just wrested themselves from an empire's grasp, there was clamor among some colonists to crown the hero of the American Revolution.