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 ...

Amanda C. Isaac, associate curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon, reveals an overlooked side of our nation's precedent-setting first, first lady. Martha Washington's last quilt (1800-02) ...

Mount Vernon’s Martha Washington is hanging up the bonnet and dress after 20 years. Mary Wiseman says it's time to hang up her bonnet as Martha Washington in Mount Vernon. Photo by Mike Salmon.

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

With the Treaty of Paris and the end of the war in 1783, Washington resigned and returned to his farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia. He would be called back again in 1789 to lead the United States as ...

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

The busts of U.S. presidents George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson tower over the Black Hills at Mount Rushmore National Monument on July 01, 2020 in Keystone, South Dakota.© Scott Olson/Getty ...

Violence, music, money, a meteoric rise and a faster fall. Sean 'Diddy' Combs had it all until his life and crimes brought ...

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

News4’s Drew Wilder reports. The names of people who were enslaved on George’s Washington’s Mount Vernon estate are inscribed on the walls of what was their home: Tom Nokes. Vina. Barbara.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — A new exhibit at President George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon will open to the public on Thursday. It explores the lives of the 317 enslaved people who ...