At a historical state house museum there are many things one would expect to see. Restorations of Senate and House chambers?

Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...

As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others ...

His loyalties were to his nation and its young and fragile Constitution. Eventually, he put meaning to those loyalties by voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term. That set a precedent ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...

The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in the 1700s to the bonanza of consumerism it has become today. For some ...

Further details emerged during a preliminary hearing for a Washington City man charged with attempted murder following an ...

At around 8:15 p.m. American Airlines Flight 5342, with 64 people on board, begins its initial descent into Reagan National. At 8:43, from the airport’s tower, a controller asks the plane's ...

Part 1 of our animated timeline of America's first 44 Presidents, from George Washington and the Founding Fathers to the ...