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.

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 ...

Progressive Washington state lawmakers have introduced a bill that could remove George Washington from the state flag. House Bill 1938 aims to create a committee that will design a new state flag ...

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 ...

LAREDO, Texas — George Washington started his annual procession to the border just after dawn Saturday, a coterie of children in colonial dress alongside him under the oaks of the red-brick ...

His profile is featured in one of the most famous paintings in American history. George Washington was the first president of the United States. He has long been referred to as “the father of ...

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 ...