In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up ...

Our nation’s first president was also a farmer and he believed in being a good steward in a different era, Dave Bergmeier writes.

Located in the heart of Wall Street in New York City, Federal Hall stands as a monument to the birth of the American presidency. It was here, on April 30, 1789, that George Washington took the oath of ...

In the only state named after a president, lawmakers in Washington are debating whether it’s time to redesign the state flag and possibly remove the nation’s first president from it. Democrats ...

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating the first U.S. president on Monday.

When George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States in 1789 in New York, William Maclay, one of the founders of Sunbury, took part in the ...

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

After taking measurements of the 200-year-old suit, Philip De Paola assembled a mock-up, or toile, in muslin and then ...

President's Day falls on the third Monday of March to honor the birthday of the first US President, George Washington. This ...

Find the list in full below: Indigenous Peoples’ Day (also observed as Columbus Day): Monday, October 13 Thanksgiving Day: ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.