Three decades before his election as the first president of the United States in 1789, George Washington commanded soldiers ...

The U.S. naturalization ceremony at George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon estate included remarks by Arnold ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...

The school’s mascot will remain George 1 — George Washington’s head, donned by a student wearing a Revolutionary War uniform. The school’s colors, buff and blue, will also remain the same.

General and President George Washington was a man of the 18th century in great ways and bad, as he led the colonies to victory while also owning (and likely bedding) enslaved women. Courtesy of ...

LAREDO, Texas — George Washington started his annual procession to the border just after dawn Saturday, a coterie of children in colonial dress alongside him under the oaks of the red-brick ...

A statue of George Washington stands in front of Federal Hall in New York City. A DNA study of unmarked remains has identified family members of the first president. iStock ...

The USS George Washington returned to its home port in Japan in November for a forward-deployment in the western Pacific Ocean.

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.

Jimmy Kimmel Slams Sylvester Stallone for Calling Trump the ‘Second George Washington’: ‘I Guess Those Punches Rocky Took to the Head Were Real’ ...

George Washington Said, 'If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, Then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led'? “My spidy sense tells me that George never said that,” one Reddit user commented.

Inauguration history: What happened on the day George Washington became president in 1789 President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ...