Sunday marks the 295th birthday of George Washington, the first president of the United States. While endless volumes have ...

More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution. The Siege of Boston was his first ...

As America approaches its 250th anniversary of its independence, historians continue to assess the lives and impact of its earliest leaders. George Washington, long called the Father of the Country, ...

The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...

George Washington is perhaps the most recognizable figure in American history, yet he often feels more like a marble statue or a face on a dollar bill than a flesh-and-blood man. We see his name on ...

America’s Cincinnatus and America’s Michelangelo are forever connected in a fresco adorning the dome of the U.S. Capitol.

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Brenda is the Assistant Director and Research Fellow for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Americans have maintained particular admiration for George Washington, who ...

In 1921, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Earl Curzon of Kedleston, said of George Washington: “... he was a great Englishman, one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived; because though he ...

Washington desperately wanted to be a great man, and to be remembered as such.