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

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

(WHTM) — On this day in 1789, President George Washington issued his first proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving for Thursday, Nov. 26, in honor of the establishment of the new ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

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

A basketful of issues close to your heart may be preventing you from seeing the much bigger issue: “A republic, if you can ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington ... inauguration on April 30, 1789, Washington faced the challenge ...

click image for close-up When American painter Edward Savage sketched a prototype for a print of George Washington and his family in 1789, it included Martha Custis Washington, the wealthy widow ...

The US Government's debt has surpassed $35 trillion, with the Treasury issuing $22 trillion in new debt annually to manage ...

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

Roosevelt in 1933. The monument immortalizes presidents George Washington (1789-97), Thomas Jefferson (1801-09), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) and Abraham Lincoln (1861-65). Danish-American ...