The Spirit of Liberty Foundation successfully hosted America’s first birthday party to kick off Celebrate America 250!, ...

One British general, after seeing the rebel army in the colonies, was overheard saying, "with a thousand British grenadiers, he would undertake to go from one end of America to the other, and geld all ...

The rowhouse in Washington, DC, was built in 1794, but has some modern flourishes. See the historic home.

George Washington had proven his bravery under fire during the French and Indian War. As a legislator and property owner, he had a reputation for integrity. When he saw America threatened by ...

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In his new novel Vigil, George Saunders puts us in the mind of an angel who crashes to earth for the purpose of comforting a ...

Discuss some of the struggles for freedom and equality that are still ongoing in one of the cradles of American democracy ...

VistaVision, the large-scale film format used largely in the 1950s, is enjoying a big-screen revival NEW YORK — When Paul Thomas Anderson told his cinematographer Michael Bauman that he wanted to ...

WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that she will not be running for reelection after over a decade in office, and the candidates for the mayoral primary election in June are pouring in ...

The siege was also a critical test for Washington. A surveyor and farmer, Washington had been out of the military for nearly 20 years after commanding troops for the British during the French and ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents’ Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday. And that’s entirely right and proper, as our first chief ...