On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

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

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...

In her 58 years of existence, Angelica Schuyler had one of her childhood homes in present-day Schuylerville incinerated by ...

Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As ...

Sequoia Maxwell started Wash Out Washington, a grassroots campaign to change the state name and flag. They have been studying ...

On June 19th Ethan Klein, an American YouTuber and podcaster (pictured), sued three streamers who had broadcast lengthy ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist is accused of having child porn on his work laptop, federal prosecutors ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...

The founders didn’t foresee flight — but they knew a throne when they saw one. And to this George Washington scholar, Qatar’s $400 million jet gift to President Donald Trump reads like a ...

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