The national holiday called Washington's Birthday may have passed, but today is George Washington’s real 286th birthday. Here are interesting facts about the first president, including his ...

In this portrait, George Washington (1732–1799) is shown standing on a bluff above the Hudson River with his enslaved personal servant, William Lee, on horseback behind him. (John Trumbull/The ...

A life-size wax figure of George Washington as president appears in the "Discover the Real George Washington: New Views from Mount Vernon," exhibit at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh, N.C ...

It is the image of Washington taking his place, sitting or standing, before a portrait painter, an act that he performed literally hundreds of times in his life.

News; We the People: How the myths of George Washington’s life hold up mirror to many today May 8, 2022 Updated Fri., May 13, 2022 at 1:19 p.m. Grant Wood, an Iowa artist, painted this piece ...

Throughout American history, George Washington has been renowned for being first and much more: his boyhood moral rectitude, for example, and for his body parts – real and fictional. Whether ...