George Washington, a Founding Father, led the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War and became the first U.S. president.

This is a life-seekers port of call, a disembarking to old and new, where history was made in calls to liberty and nation, to ...

The wallpaper at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum in Wethersfield is the same as when George Washington stayed there.

During the American Revolution, newspapers printed sensational stories about George Washington's affairs. An enslaved woman named Venus claimed George fathered her son. And years after his passing, a ...

Lit by charisma and shaded by fate, the subfertile George Washington left just one foal, but 20 years after his electrifying 2,000 Guineas win his grandson Distant Storm, against considerable odds, ...

George Washington Middle School is hosting a community walk next month to support a student battling a rare form of bone ...

After all, said LGBTQ museum president and CEO Robert Kesten, staff from a federal agency told him “we need not apply.” But ...

Trump’s Remaking of D.C. President Trump plans to build a park along the Potomac River featuring life-size statues of 250 ...

Andrew O’Shaughnessy, a history professor at the University of Virginia, is the author of “The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.” He is a ...

A new Philly Touch tour in Signers' Hall lets visitors pick up on the founders’ age, status, and demeanor through touch.

George Washington participated in four expeditions to western Pennsylvania from 1753 to 1758 as part of Great Britain’s ...

A fireworks display near the Washington Monument during an America250 kickoff celebration in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 1, 2026. Over the past year, it has become increasingly clear that federal ...