Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Elon Musk received short shrift after declaring the English Channel should be re-named after George Washington. One ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa , a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, ...

Elon Musk shared his plan to rename the English Channel to the George Washington Channel on X. Musk's tweet sent the netizens into a frenzy.

If you are counting on a potential electoral contest between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, you might have to tamp down your expectations.

But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... to setting forth political principles. The political history collections at the National Museum of American History ...

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are ...

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

This button from George Washington’s first inauguration visually unified the states of the Union. Smithsonian's National Museum of American History These addresses are more than just a series of ...