Beneath the floors of George Washington’s Mount Vernon mansion, archaeologists uncovered two perfectly preserved sealed ...

Beloved Martha, Mary Wiseman, Looks Back with Joy Mount Vernon’s Martha Washington is hanging up the bonnet and dress after 20 years.

Martha had an almost maternal relationship toward Fanny, who came to live permanently at Mount Vernon in the mid-1780s. It appears that Martha wrote more letters to Fanny than to anyone else in ...

Referred to the first rock star, the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to North Jersey in 1825 caused quite a stir. 'Lafayette' ...

This is the second in a series of columns on the President’s Cabinet. With the advent of the Department of Government ...

Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that ...

George Washington’s Mount Vernon has unveiled a new permanent exhibit, “Lives Bound Together: Slavery at Mount Vernon.” ...

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

In Bill Stamats latest collection, you won't find the same dull textures, faded colors and framing that has become a ...

So while Barry Alvarez would have been the king of Wisconsin coaches over the last 25 years of the 20th century, he didn’t ...