Beautiful weather greeted parade-goers in Alexandria, Virginia, on Presidents Day to commemorate the 290th anniversary of the birth of the first U.S. president.

George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known for his military leadership during the French and Indian ...

That old cherry-tree fable—in which young George admits to his father that he did, indeed, chop down the tree with his hatchet—was invented by a Washington biographer named Mason Locke Weems ...

Statue of George Washington Tetra Images / Getty Images The dawn of American democracy didn’t take place in 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Colin Calloway - author of [The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation] - talked about Washington and his relationship with Native ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. ... once celebration of Washington’s birth, increasingly retail-focused holiday ...

On this anniversary of George Washington’s birth, it is worth looking back at what historians have observed about his leadership. Although he wasn’t perfect, as no man or woman is, there is ...