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This Presidents' Day is also George Washington's 293rd birthday, and there was a big celebration held for him at Mount Vernon ...

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ...

The first floor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon will be open for the public to observe preservation work in progress on three days later this month, including Presidents Day, Feb. 17.

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating ...

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

Nearly 300 years since George Washington ... around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and Washington biographer, put it, “He ...

"Absolutely," said presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library in Mount Vernon, Va. "The thing that's really interesting about ...

Trail maps and additional information can ... Designed by John Russell Pope and inspired by George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the museum features exhibits of 18th-century furniture, weapons ...

The latest offering from Washington Stage Guild, “Escape from the Asylum: A Madcap Mystery,” is a sequel to the Patricia ...

Donald Trump’s new names for Alaska’s Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico will soon be realized in Google Maps. The massive ... started by George W. Bush, is part of the freeze, even though ...