In 1959, Alex Katz began painting figures on canvas, cutting them out and then pasting them onto wooden boards. Two years later the playwright Kenneth Koch saw an exhibition of these and asked Katz to ...

But one of the most iconic depictions of the Revolution, Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, was actually painted much later, in 1851. Another familiar image of American ...

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

The exhibit, called "Washington's Headquarters and the Memory of the American Revolution," highlights the home's "pivotal ...

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...

To gain a better perspective of what it takes to unite a nation, I took a trip to a place known as the crucible of the ...

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

If I ever want to get a bridge named after me, I need to contribute to national unity. I’m more or less incapable of uniting anything more complex than peanut butter and jelly. This makes the job ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said one of his picks for a crucial vaccine advisory panel is a professor at George Washington University. But News4 found the doctor hasn ...

A planned uninterrupted closure of the pedestrian walkway at the Washington Crossing toll-supported bridge is scheduled to ...