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

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 ...

As the country observes the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Judy Woodruff is starting a new chapter of America at a Crossroads. She’ll explore what it means to be an American, ...

Federal Hall, at Wall and Broad streets, stands at the site where George Washington took the Oath of Office on April 30, 1789, to become the first U.S. president. Presidential, Congressional and Court ...

A journey around Lower Manhattan highlights the roots of Revolution in the nation's first capital, now New York's largest city.

Pierre L'Enfant designed the look of the nation's capital but died in obscurity.

Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...

Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

Image via Getty Images Two teens have sadly died after being buried alive. The best friends were digging a sand hole when it suddenly collapsed, burying them. The two teens tragically passed away.

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 ...

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 ...

Few times in recorded history has there been a decision so important and so desperate that it not only changed the course of a battle and a war, but also the course of a nation — and the trajectory of ...