A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...

Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...

John Hancock was once one of the wealthiest merchants in New England and among the most popular and well-respected figures of ...

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

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, ...

Private, Public, Secret,' by J. Randy Taraborrelli, learn the untold story of JFK's mistress Joan Lundberg and what her ...

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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