The Mansion Revitalization Project at George Washington’s Mount Vernon was a massive and privately funded $40 million project ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

A major restoration project is underway at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia, in preparation for America’s 250th Birthday next year.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and actor, was the keynoe speaker at a naturalization ceremony at Mount ...

Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?

The defending national champs announced their nonconference schedule for the 2025-26 season on Tuesday. Several marquee ...

His production dipped this past season (10.6 ppg, 5.5 rpg) in part due to a midseason ankle injury and in part because George Washington had more weapons, improving from 15-17 overall and 4-14 in ...

Before Thanksgiving became the prominent late November holiday, much of America celebrated "Evacuation Day" – commemorating the day the last Redcoats fled New York in 1783.

Our first president used the holiday to unite a divided nation. So can we. Washington’s Thanksgiving and Ours On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved ...

George Washington, our first president, issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but the national holiday didn’t begin until 1863, two years into the Civil War, when it was ...

Americans have been giving thanks with feasting dating back to 1541, according to the National Park Service, but President George Washington didn’t declare Nov. 26 a national day of thanks until ...

Thanksgiving for what? Henry David Thoreau in 1856, George Washington in 1797 and Mark Twain in 1907 (photo: Benjamin D. Maxham / Gilbert Stuart / A.F. Bradley / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) ...