Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

America is celebrating its 250th birthday this year — marking 2½ centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the creation of the United States.

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come As a 26-year-old colonel, Washington ...

You can’t have driven anywhere around the Delaware Valley without passing a place where George Washington is reported to have spent the night. From riverbank farmhouses to stone taverns and ...

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one ...

File photo: John Godzieba, as Gen. George Washington, second right, stands in a boat during a reenactment of Washington's daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the Delaware River in Washington Crossing, ...

A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past. Paintings of ...

Paintings of George Washington gaze down sternly at visitors to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. One image in particular seems iconic, with Washington's head turned slightly to the ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1799, America’s first president George Washington died at his home at the age of 67. Four days after his death, a funeral was held at Mount Vernon where his body was buried.

The No. 18 Florida Gators escaped an upset on Saturday in their Orange Bowl Classic matchup with George Washington, taking down the Revolutionaries, 80-70, in Sunrise, Fla. Thomas Haugh and Xaivian ...