George Washington earned his stripes, tested his resolve and learned from his defeats in western Pennsylvania.

George Washington was born on Friday, Feb. 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Details regarding his childhood are ...

For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with ...

Today, our Nation commemorates the Father of our country, the patriarch of our freedom, and a timeless exemplar of valor and virtue: the first President of the United States, George Washington. On ...

Emeritus Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University; Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia The two documents are the bookends of the American Revolution. That revolution began ...

It has been years of planning and execution, but now the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

The Founders’ attitude toward immigration and citizenship was enunciated best by the first president of the United States, George Washington.