Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project ...

The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

One of the books from the personal library of President George Washington is examined in the rare books ... Washington owned the sprawling Mount Vernon plantation, and at the time of his death, 317 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Mount Vernon Chief Curator Adam Erby talked about the suit coat that George Washington wore in 1789 for his first inauguration. He explained why ...

The statue is on loan from George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and will stay in Tallahassee for the next year. A statue of George Washington was put on display in the Florida Capitol on ...

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first president’s administrations.

Presidents Day has changed dramatically over the years. For some historians, the holiday has lost discernible meaning.

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 ...

George Washington was born on ... Sources: The Department of Defense, Mount Vernon, National Park Service, U.S. Senate, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, City of Washington D.C ...

(AP) — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the ... Surviving records make no mention of observances at Mount Vernon, while his diary shows he was often hard ...