Outside of Philadelphia, the Emlen House is where the nation’s first president stayed while leading the Continental Army in 1777.

Brenda is the Assistant Director and Research Fellow for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Americans have maintained particular admiration for George Washington, who ...

Walter Washington is a sixth-generation nephew of the first U.S. president. The tour of Washington family homes, he says, “is ...

You may think you know some of the history of the French and Indian War and even of Fort Ligonier, but it's what's been found just 2 miles away from the fort that is shedding new light on the global ...

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 ...

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 - ...