SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A George Washington Birthday Ball will be held in a historic town in Southwest Arkansas in late February. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 22 ...

Let's take a closer look at the holiday and how it could impact you: Presidents Day began as an unofficial holiday to celebrate George Washington after his death ... The date of Washington's ...

22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday ... and one the office again sank into soon after his death. Yet for each successive office holder ...

(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was ... Still, he said, a market for Washington memorabilia sprang up almost immediately after his death in 1799 at age 67, with people ...

In May 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a brigadier general anxiously wrote George Washington a letter about a British raid that had just occurred in Danbury, Connecticut. Though the British had ...

George Washington University, a private institution, has been offering online bachelor's degree programs since before 2000-2001. All of the online classes are recorded and archived so students can ...

Susannah George is The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, based in Dubai, where she leads coverage of the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf and their neighbor, Iran. She previously spent ...

‘General George Washington Resigning His Commission,’ an 1824 portrait by John Trumbull in the U.S. Capitol (photo: Public domain) Thomas Griffin Blogs February 17, 2025 In the summer of 1783 ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until ...