Explore the history of George Washington's birthday celebrations, calendar changes, and its transformation into a national ...

More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the ...

On Presidents Day, officially known as Washington’s Birthday, Americans celebrate the life of George Washington.

One British general, after seeing the rebel army in the colonies, was overheard saying, "with a thousand British grenadiers, he would undertake to go from one end of America to the other, and geld all ...

The Washington Monument is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. It was quite difficult to complete. According ...

When I was growing up, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents Day. It was observed on Feb. 22, the day George ...

Washington feared that partisanship could lead to the destruction of the Constitution and to the rule of “ambitious, and ...

America’s Cincinnatus and America’s Michelangelo are forever connected in a fresco adorning the dome of the U.S. Capitol.

The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...

Washington desperately wanted to be a great man, and to be remembered as such.

Quote of the day: George Washington's quote tells that preparation for war acts as a deterrent, discouraging aggression and ...