This essay is adapted from First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America by Cassandra A. Good © 2023 by Cassandra A. Good, used with permission ...

America’s first president George Washington addressed the assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this day in history, Jan. 8, 1790. Washington’s address took place at Federal ...

The version of the quote that widely circulated online was shortened and simplified, but it accurately preserved the meaning of Washington's original words as delivered in a March 15, 1783, speech.

Fox Nation is releasing a new documentary drama series on George Washington this Monday, just in time for the Fourth of July. The new series, GEORGE: Rise of a Revolutionary, will detail the story ...

It happened gradually." It's the nation's first president, George Washington, who understood the potential significance of the role. He helped establish a balance of being a strong leader while ...

George Washington – commander of the Continental Army, first President of the United States, face of the dollar bill and the headstrong revolutionary who defeated an empire to build a nation.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

In the Trustees’ Room of the Boston Athenaeum, around 230 books once belonging to President George Washington rest in a glass and wooden bookcase. Among the volumes: Masonic sermons, agricultural ...