As the first president of the United States, George Washington is one of the most recognizable figures in American history.

Few times in recorded history has there been a decision so important and so desperate that it not only changed the course of ...

A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past.

Today, our Nation commemorates the Father of our country, the patriarch of our freedom, and a timeless exemplar of valor and virtue: the first President of the United States, George Washington. On ...

George Washington, the first U.S. president, was born in 1732 and developed interests in military arts and western expansion.

Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate along the Potomac River in Virginia, is undergoing the largest renovation in its ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids with the first US president: George Washington. Two asteroids, both around the ...

The U.S. president may be referred to as the most powerful person in the world now, but that wasn't what the Founding Fathers intended. In fact, when the United States was born, they didn't really ...

In 1921, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Earl Curzon of Kedleston, said of George Washington: “... he was a great Englishman, one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived; because though he ...

As the war enters its sixth year, the Continental Army is starting to show signs of fraying. After British victories in the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Waxhaws, British soldiers under ...