During his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to run the federal government as though it were a business.

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

Presidents Day has changed dramatically over the years. For some historians, the holiday has lost discernible meaning.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

On September 19, 1796, George Washington published an open letter to the American people. He had two messages in mind. The ...

DALLAS — Presidents Day is celebrated each year on the third Monday in February and commemorates the birthdays of two former presidents – George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. This year, it ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

WASHINGTON — Today is Presidents Day, which celebrates George Washington ... So why is the holiday on the 17th this year, and why do we celebrate other presidents? The U.S. Embassy says Congress ...

(AP) — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about ... will once again commemorate its first president on Monday, 293 years after he was born. The meaning of Presidents ...