Thus George Washington, at age 16, confided to his diary. The year was 1748. He was largely self-taught, far from home, trying to learn the surveyor's trade. Eventually the father of his country ...

The painting, a valuable copy on reverse glass of a well-known image painted by American artist Gilbert Stuart, was turned ...

That famous description of George Washington by his ... But his brief time with the army and Washington no doubt inspired him as he wrote the opening to his American Crisis—“These are the ...

On February 4, 1789, the 69 members of the Electoral College made George ... Washington’s agitation might have arisen from an undiagnosed neurological disorder or might simply have been a bad ...