When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

Unquestionably it was a foundational document for America, calling for unity against Great Britain in the struggle for ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled over ...

George Washington logged his journeys in letters, so we were able to find out what happened while they were at the camp. On September 18th, 1777, Washington’s army stopped at Camp Pottsgrove ...