Removing a park exhibit honoring George Washington's slaves doesn't make him more venerable, it makes whitewashing history ...

Nearly 240 years ago on Feb. 4, 1789, George Washington was unanimously elected by all 69 presidential electors as the first ...

To mark President's Day and the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, historian Ken Bridges explores the life of George ...

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased?

George Washington kept slaves as president, but a federal display commemorating them has now been dismantled in Philadelphia.

circa 1800: American president George Washington (1732 - 1799) watches over a group of enslaved people working in a field at Mount Vernon. circa 1800: American president George Washington (1732 - 1799 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - George Washington created what is now the oldest military award, an honor that would come to be known as the Purple Heart, 243 years ago Thursday. At the time of its creation ...

File photo: John Godzieba, as Gen. George Washington, second right, stands in a boat during a reenactment of Washington's daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the Delaware River in Washington Crossing, ...