Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...

The Recorder is featuring a weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the ...

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women ...

This is the second of a series on some of America’s Founding Fathers in honor of the United States Semiquincentennial. George Washington had proven his bravery under fire during the French and Indian ...

To mark President's Day and the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, historian Ken Bridges explores the life of George Washington.

More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the ...

Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, one of the University of Virginia’s rare and valuable copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, will go on display in the Rotunda ...