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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 Washington Commanders have been on the front foot in free agency, adding quality players in Deebo Samuel and Laremy Tunsil. But that isn't all general manager Adam Peters has done. He managed ...