UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first ...

Young Thomas Jefferson's lack of skill with women — including one who turned down his marriage proposal — is explored in the ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...

As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ended up in the British Museum instead.

New Jersey backed George Washington twice. Washington received all six of the state’s electoral votes in 1789.  New Jersey gave six of their votes for ...

The whole Fossett family had been enslaved by Thomas Jefferson, president of the ... teenage girls to come learn French cookery under George Washington's chef, Julien. Fossett’s sister-in ...

George Washington, who had been leading the battle ... Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia sold a letter Washington wrote to Thomas Jefferson for $2.4 million. In 2023, Raab sold another ...

(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly ... partisanship was rampant and many members of his original Cabinet were gone, including Thomas ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were all immortalized on a cliff's face for the eyes of the world to absorb. The history of the United States abridged ...