Walter Washington is a sixth-generation nephew of the first U.S. president. The tour of Washington family homes, he says, “is ...

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (DC News Now) — History lovers have a chance to discover George Washington’s influence beyond his Mt. Vernon estate. The first U.S. president was a large landowner in West Virginia ...

Outside of Philadelphia, the Emlen House is where the nation’s first president stayed while leading the Continental Army in ...

You may think you know some of the history of the French and Indian War and even of Fort Ligonier, but it's what's been found just 2 miles away from the fort that is shedding new light on the global ...

George Washington’s true “warrior ethos” prized discipline, restraint, and decency—values at odds with Pete Hegseth’s call for a tougher military culture.

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743 Rebecca Brenner Graham - ...