The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

MARBLEHEAD, MASS. (WHDH) - The public got their first look at a piece of history with local ties this weekend as the Marblehead Museum and /marblehead-museum-acquires-1779-george-washington-letter ...

A statue of the first U.S. president stands prominently in London’s Trafalgar Square, but some Britons find it strange to ...

A magnificent portrait of the George Washington that usually hangs in the U.S. embassy in Paris has headed to Versailles for some much-needed TLC. This involves the painstaking removal of some ...

Just a short walk from Washington, D.C.’s National Mall is The George Washington University, the largest research institution in the city. GW has a network of additional campuses, including its ...

This week, George Washington’s 291st birthday will be celebrated by tiny numbers of Americans. That did not used to be the case. For most of our history, Washington’s birthday was a big deal ...

George Washington died at age 67 in the big family bed on the second floor of Mount Vernon, on December 14, 1799. He was exhausted; a sudden inflammation of the throat stopped his breathing.

A new exhibit at President George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon will open to the public on Juneteenth, and it explores ...

Some may have read the words of George Washington’s most famous eulogist: “AMERICANS! he had no child—BUT YOU,—and HE WAS ALL YOUR OWN.” Who, then, are these children; ...

A portrait of George Washington that experts say has been confirmed as the work of Charles Willson Peale. It depicts him after the Battle at Princeton.

Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...

America’s first president George Washington addressed the assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this day in history, Jan. 8, 1780. Washington’s address took place at Federal ...