When my friends and I got off the train at the Tysons Metro station, I turned around to them and asked if they'd rather take ...

The Interior Department removed placards and videos about Washington’s involvement with slavery. A new court ruling blocks ...

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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 ...

The exhibit memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington. The Park Service said it was being removed in accordance ...

Months after the "Game of Thrones" actress was announced as the lead in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Prime Video adaptation of "Tomb Raider," her transformation into the beloved protagonist Lara Croft has ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one ...

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On Christmas Day in 1776, with the Continental Army at its lowest ebb, George Washington stood on the icy banks of the Delaware River and launched a last-ditch effort to keep the American Revolution ...

From the outside, this corner row house that dates to 1890 looks like all of the others on this quiet street in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, but the sellers have opened up the interior to ...