On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

The $2 billion project to restore the George Washington Bridge reached a milestone as the last vertical steel suspension rope ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare reference to the experimental smallpox inoculation that helped prevent outbreaks Eli Wizevich ...

Port Authority replaced all of the George Washington Bridge's original suspender ropes, marking a major milestone in $2 ...

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Thursday installed the last new steel suspender rope on the 93-year-old George Washington Bridge. The original ropes suspend from the bridge’s four ...

George Washington, who had been leading the battle ... The letter, more than 240 years old, is written on both sides of a single sheet of paper roughly 8 by 12 inches. It is stained and discolored ...