When the Continental Army formed 250 years ago at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, George Washington was appointed its ...

A statue of the first U.S. president stands prominently in London’s Trafalgar Square, but some Britons find it strange to ...

As George Washington’s 291st birthday is celebrated ... The process of obtaining a license, however, is not known. Therefore, he could have been in Williamsburg before 1752 to take classes ...

This week, George Washington’s 291st birthday will be celebrated by tiny numbers of Americans. That did not used to be the case. For most of our history, Washington’s birthday was a big deal ...

They had never been George Washington’s blood relatives; it had been through their own choices and efforts that the nation had known them, rather than the many Washington nieces and nephews ...

It appears to have been a highly athletic, team version of the modern game known as Tag. George Washington occasionally gave his slaves leave to attend special sporting events. In the fall of 1786 ...

After the visit, Seixas wrote to Washington (in part): George Washington (depicted inside ... On August 18, 1790, Washington wrote an historic and well-known response, his Letter to the Jews ...

For years, social media users have claimed the U.S. Capitol contains a tomb that was originally built for George ... Washington's tomb is located directly underneath a vaulted first-floor space ...

Enter the first president: George Washington. He was the commander in ... election pitted Whig candidate William Henry Harrison — known as Old Tippecanoe, a nickname from his 1811 military ...

George Washington was born on Feb. 22 ... capital of the U.S. to be located on the Potomac River. The city was known as Columbia until 1791 when it was named in Washington’s honor.