Excerpted from “A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington” 2006 exhibition at Mount Vernon. So passionate was the Marquis de Lafayette to join the fight for ...

Tobias rejoined the household at Mount Vernon and was famously present at George Washington’s deathbed in December 1799. As promised, George Washington remembered George Augustine and Fanny’s ...

Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As ...

From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...

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

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

The wait was over for more than 100 people as they finally got to call the U.S. "home." And what better place to do it than ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said “the decision is...up to John,” a day after Reid’s lawyer sent a cease-and-desist notice to Youngkin’s top political adviser over the political spectacle.

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George Vernon Stokes was a British artist who was born in 1873. George Vernon Stokes's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 12 USD to 5,010 USD, depending ...

Those men -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe -- and their sometimes complicated relationships are the focus… By Judy Woodruff, Stephanie Kotuby Arts Dec 25 ...