George Washington famously rejected an offer to make him king and thought that calling the president “Your Excellency” might be a bit much, too. #share#There is something in us, something ugly ...

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first ...

(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly ... He didn’t want to be honored like a king, said Seth Bruggeman, a history professor at Temple ...

In a post on his Truth Social site this week about forcing the suspension of a congestion charge pilot scheme in New York ...

Washington, who maintained a studied silence ... The framers, still haunted by the specter of King George III, could scarcely have envisioned how their carefully constrained executive would ...

Jeenah Moon for The New York Times ‘A snub to King George.’ In all of her years of researching Washington, Ms. Coe, the author of “You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of ...

You may recall that this country revolted against the mad King George, III. The lore of America’s revolt is recounted in ...

One thing the founders were clear about: We should not have a king. George Washington is often rated the best president in U.S. history. What makes him the “father of his country” was his ...

Driven by the desire to secure the fate of the colonies, the greatest hero of the revolution, George Washington, succumbs to the temptation of infinite power. The new King is born and his reign ...