Two unforgettable images run through Ron Chernow's great book, "Washington: A Life," and they have nothing to do with cherry trees or wooden teeth or silver dollars thrown across the Potomac. The ...

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural ...

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle might’ve shared too many details about his recovery treatment. During a recent ...

Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, was just 6 miles away from a similar attempt on the life of George Washington, founding father.

The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

The TV series is an adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 19th century odyssey, which follows the life of George Washington Black, an ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16, confided to his diary. The year was 1748. ... Bringing Washington to life these days is a hard row to hoe, because he really was a monument, too.

A monthslong investigation into a series of Navy suicides last year found the service failed to provide a basic quality of life for sailors, housing them in unacceptable living conditions and ...

General George Washington gave a final goodbye to his soldiers at the close of the Revolutionary War on this day in history, Dec. 4, 1783, at the historic Lower Manhattan tavern.