Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

The federal government recognized June as Pride Month under three Democratic presidents. Two Republican presidents did not recognize it.

Washington’s statue replaced an earlier marble monument lost in the Capitol fire of 1831 and came as North and South were dividing in the United States ...

This statue of George Washington stands in front of Federal Hall in New York City. | AndreaAstes/iStock via Getty Images Before he became president, George Washington served as commander-in-chief ...

Plaque denoting the history of the Washington Elm’s journey to Nevada on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington in 1932.

Stevens declared that the books were likely to end up in the British Museum. But in Boston, when word got out that George Washington’s books were destined for the collection of their British cousins, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king.

George Washington held the first presidential inauguration in U.S. history at Federal Hall in New York City on April 30, 1789.

As the nation approached bicentennial celebrations of George Washington's birth in 1932, Mrs. Dorsey sent these "grandchildren" of the Washington Elm to vital historical sites across the United States ...

As Washington described to the nation how he intended in his retirement to enjoy “the benign influence of good Laws under a free Government,” he was also writing to his agent with instructions ...

George Washington stood on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City on April 30, 1789, and took the oath of office, as the first President of the United States.