White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

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

That famous description of George Washington by his ... protests against British taxes, Washington also dined with the royal governor and assumed, as did most of his landed countrymen, that ...

Although George Washington attended grammar school, he is one of eight presidents that did not attend college. At 17 years old, George Washington served as county surveyor of Culpepper County.

Much of Washington’s wealth was based on slave labor. In his will, he freed 123 of the 300 enslaved African Americans who had made his successful business possible, but while he lived, he expected his ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences ... Court Case Could Open the Door to Prosecutions for DEI Why did Washington strike these pointed lines from his Farewell Address?

Soldiers had to do something unusually heroic or perform ... Although he never lived in Washington D.C. or the White House, George Washington did help build the capital. In July 1790, Congress ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... Yet as we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who he was and what he did to deserve such ubiquitous recognition.