That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is probably still the best summation of the man who, over a hard but resolute ...

The Book of George is a mordantly humorous exploration of the arrested development of the modern man. George embodies the archetypal traits of the Peter Pan syndrome, depicted by his emotional ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn ... Perhaps the most notable difference between Washington's inauguration and more modern ones is the location.

“It’s a plainer look, so we think it was part of him trying to show himself as a civilian, as a man of the people, not as an elitist,” says Amanda Isaac, a curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.