It was on this day in 1789 that George Washington placed his hand on a bible in New York and became the first President of the United States under our Constitution – setting another of many ...

Feb. 20 marks the Washington’s Birthday federal holiday, but Washington’s actual birthday changed years and days with the passage of an English law.

We celebrate the life of George Washington, imperfect though he was, because he was the indispensable man who held our fragile republic together in its formative years. There will never be another ...

Police are working to hunt down a 200-year-old portrait of the nation’s first president, George Washington, that was stolen from a storage unit in Englewood, Colorado.

George Washington's final years 07:07. Through eight grueling years of the Revolutionary War, and another eight as the first President of the United States, George Washington was sustained by a ...

An engraving of George Washington from 1859. He served two terms in office, from 1789 to 1797. ... It cannot be overstated how much Washington did not want to be president. Years before, ...

Archaeologists found something incredibly rare in the cellar of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon: Two intact jars of cherries buried in the basement of the first U.S. president's house ...