He intended to swing east and strike Beauregard’s right flank, crossing ... of the Potomac.” The dark, stormy morning of July 22 found thousands of McDowell’s men stumbling into Washington ...

The likely Democratic candidate, George ... Washington. Grant had taken those men for harsher duty in the trenches in front of Petersburg, and now, on the threatened north side of the barrier ...

As he prepared to leave office in 1796, President George Washington delivered a farewell address in which he warned: “The ...

The first and second varsity eight boats went undefeated, while the first and second varsity four boats struggled against ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

The president is making the world’s most famous residence more like Mar-a-Lago, his gilded Florida club.

In April, on the same day as the fatal New York helicopter crash, a wing tip of an American Airlines plane struck another plane from the same airline on a taxiway of the Ronald Reagan Washington ...

Benjamin Ritchie was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2002 for the Sept. 29, 2000, fatal shooting of 32-year-old ...

All the latest news and pictures of Prince George (Alexander Louis) of Wales, the first-born son to Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, and older brother to Princess Charlotte and Prince ...