A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely on her own after her husband’s death in 1743 Rebecca Brenner Graham - ...

In May 1894, Grover Cleveland spoke at the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington, quoting her son’s words, in effect, that the first president owed everything to her magnificent mothering. President ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled over the ...

In 1921, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Earl Curzon of Kedleston, said of George Washington: “... he was a great Englishman, one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived; because though he ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king. And yet the United ...

Archaeologists found the battlefield on private land a few miles away from Fort Ligonier in Pennsylvania. Jeff Kubina via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Three decades before his election as the ...