Today, our Nation commemorates the Father of our country, the patriarch of our freedom, and a timeless exemplar of valor and virtue: the first President of the United States, George Washington. On ...

The U.S. president may be referred to as the most powerful person in the world now, but that wasn't what the Founding Fathers intended. In fact, when the United States was born, they didn't really ...

George Washington, the first U.S. president, was born in 1732 and developed interests in military arts and western expansion.

Last November, during a symposium at Mount Vernon on democracy, John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington’s ...

George Washington's historic Mount Vernon mansion reopened Wednesday following a transformative $40 million restoration, the most ambitious preservation effort in the Northern Virginia estate's ...

The USS George Washington, a United States aircraft carrier deployed in Japan, is preparing for an upcoming patrol in the western Pacific Ocean to counter naval threats posed by China.

In 1921, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Earl Curzon of Kedleston, said of George Washington: “... he was a great Englishman, one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived; because though he ...

As the war enters its sixth year, the Continental Army is starting to show signs of fraying. After British victories in the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Waxhaws, British soldiers under ...