George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. George Washington strikes a confident pose after the victorious Battle of Princeton in this ...

Explore the grandeur of America’s richest family through the Biltmore Estate—an architectural marvel steeped in history, ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a ...

The names of people who were enslaved on George’s Washington’s Mount Vernon estate are inscribed on the walls of what was their home: Tom Nokes. Vina. Barbara. Their names are grouped together by ...

George Washington's return of power set the country on a unique path, one that rejected monarchs in favor of civilian rule ...

Just days after being commissioned as the commander in chief of the Continental Army in June 1775, George Washington arrived in Wallingford. On June 29, 1775, Washington stood under the shade of a ...

Jonathan Sewall of Portsmouth was a lawyer by profession, but became famous during the American Revolution as a poet and ...

Within days of George Floyd's 2020 killing by a police officer ... "Everybody knew about it and everyone felt overwhelmed by it," the poet said five years after the murder that inspired A Knee ...

Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry ... Alyson Cambridge performs selections from George Gershwin’s genre-defying opera Porgy and Bess at this 90th anniversary concert.

She’s been received at court in London. Her book of poetry was a bestseller. So he writes this note about how touched he was ... and then he signs it, ‘Your obedient servant George Washington.’” A ...

David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and Independence” is this year’s winner of the George Washington Prize, which honors works arising ...

David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and Independence” is this year’s winner of the George Washington Prize, which honors ...