General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, ...

Is Donald Trump more like George Washington or King George? Here's how our president is ruling like a monarch.

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

Contrast that with the “big, beautiful” spending bill being steered through Congress by today’s career politicians, who ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

An exhibit on Caroline Kennedy's pony, dubbed 'Macaroni.' Price’s favorite, however, is the life-size recreation of Caroline ...

Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization.

It's Presidents Day, the holiday that started in honor of George Washington -- the president with an enormous birthday candle on the Mall. But do we revere the father of our country too much? It ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, acquired by the Raab Collection, was written during the Revolutionary War ...

Presidents Day is still George Washington’s birthday. It is also a symptom of a veneration of the imperial presidency that is un-republican and would have horrified the Founding Fathers.

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until, on a whim ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.