The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate ... rooms in the Mount Vernon mansion since new evidence about Washington’s life surfaced in the last 10 years. Those have been found ...

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 ...

‘General George Washington Resigning His Commission ... is possible that others know better — and God, the author of life, knows better than anyone else. As we can see, this letter from ...