The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural ... The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association Ms. Lee added that Mr. Washington and other founding fathers, such as John Adams and Benjamin ...

Chernow’s biographies of George Washington, John D. Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton (which inspired the musical) were doorstops, and this new life of a founding father of ...

Among them, there was Hercules Posey, an enslaved man who worked as George Washington’s personal ... his parents being Jefferson’s father-in-law John Wayles and Wayles’ slave Betty Hemings.

Like George Washington, he was a surveyor, and like Benjamin Franklin, he was an inventor and publisher of almanacs containing no end of useful information. Unlike those other Founding Fathers ...

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

Most of us broadly support the principles, but the overbearing orthodoxy of 'diversity, equity and inclusion' has angered ...

The presidential biographer on tech titans, what Trump could learn from Lincoln and why she remains optimistic about America ...