WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — There was a reported heavy police presence in Wilkes-Barre Monday night. Police ...

In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

Alexandria's George Washington Birthday Parade is on the same day as the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War.

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental ... Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) General Washington, who had survived smallpox as a young man ...

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

George Washington was the first president of the U.S. and an American Revolutionary War general, according to George Washington's Mount Vernon. Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732, and died Dec. 14, ...

Of the 31 people identified in the painting “General George Washington Resigning His Commission,” displayed in the Capitol Rotunda, 19 were enslavers. By Gillian Brockell Dec. 27 at 7:00 a.m ...

General Howe was forced to take these strategic ... himself after everything that his mother was not. Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County ...