Father Tony Gillespie has vivid memories of his life on Guam in the 1970s — aiding Vietnamese refugees in 1975, helping ...

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...

Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides ...

The painting is the first of seven portraits of Washington made from life by Peale and the only portrait of Washington that ...

White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

History is littered with tales of famous figures and their preferred cocktails, and legend has it George Washington was ...

Gwathmey said his role in NPR's programming department "felt like being the desk sergeant in a police precinct." ...

Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. In their day, those great men sometimes quarreled and ...

The idea that birth order determines personality continues to intrigue psychologists, not to mention the average person. Can ...

Sam Hill was a wealthy, happy-go-lucky eccentric millionaire and philanderer, which mixed oddly with his Quakerism. James J. Hill hired Sam Hill into the Northern Pacific Railroad legal department in ...