New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come As a 26-year-old colonel, Washington ...

Pierre L'Enfant was a lowly French engineer when he met George Washington at Valley Forge. Washington recruited him to make the design for the nation's new capital city. L'Enfant made the plans, but ...

The administration has ordered that further changes be made to Independence National Historical Park, according to internal ...

Removing a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia revives a 250-year-old American debate.

George Washington kept slaves as president, but a federal display commemorating them has now been dismantled in Philadelphia.

This comes amid a review directed by President Donald Trump's executive order.

It has been years of planning and executing, but the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate is complete just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday. “If ...

The NPS is asking visitors to help control the spread of this deadly disease.

George Cabot Lodge, the scion of one of America’s most enduring political dynasties, stepped into the arena against a Kennedy in 1962, marking the final chapter in a familial rivalry that had defined ...

Matthew Perry has finally received a grave plaque more than two years after his untimely death in from a ketamine overdose. The Friends star’s final resting place, located at Forest Lawn Memorial Park ...

COLUMBIA — With all the construction happening lately, it’s getting harder to envision South Carolina’s capital city as the sleepy government town it once was. The sidewalks of Main Street are packed ...