Rookie guard with a knack for making the right decision sparks Washington to a 113-95 win over the Raptors. At his best, ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.

This Sunday, the George Washington Inaugural Bible — which Washington used to swear his oath of office as the country’s first ...

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the images of four U.S. presidents into Mount Rushmore on Oct. 4, 1927. The effort ...

It wasn’t a dream or a fantasy so much as a thought experiment: What if, sitting alongside me, inexplicably riding shotgun in ...

President George Washington announced that Nov. 26 of that year would be “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,” the first in U.S. history.

The author of a new biography of poet Phillis Wheatley has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey Through American Slavery and ...

It can be argued that the first American elections were far from democratic. George Washington, a national hero, was ...

George Speight, who was found guilty of treason after leading a failed coup in May 2000, has received a presidential pardon and been released from prison. Speight held the country's then-prime ...

President George Washington delivers his inaugural address in the Senate Chamber of Old Federal Hall in New York on April 30, 1789. (AP Photo) By William Haldeman ...

George Washington He added ... voted the nation's first president by the electoral college in late 1788-early 1789. John Adams was elected the first vice president. Washington and Adams both ...