Columnist: As we celebrate the independence of the United States this July 4, I will be thinking with gratitude of those who ...

Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

You probably see the dollar bill every day, but have you ever thought about the symbols on the dollar bill and what they mean ...

TALLAHASSEE - America's first president is in the Florida Capitol Building. Indeed, a statue of George Washington will be on ...

English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 while practicing as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire. Photograph by The Print Collector, Getty ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a ...

George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796. Richard Strauss / NMAH George Washington was a man of many talents.

When George Washington left office at the end of his second term, he left America with perhaps the most prescient lesson for the nation’s future on Sept. 19, 1796 in his famous farewell address ...

The back of the reflector is lined with green silk. The candle stand and other relics of George and Martha Washington were sold to the United States government in 1878 by the Lewis family (descendants ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project. The wallpaper was found at the Old York Historical Society in Maine ...

J oin RSBN for the U.S. Senate’s annual tradition of reading President George Washington’s 1796 Farewell Address at 2:30 pm EST. RSBN Studio. previous post. Costa Rica to receive deported migrants ...