The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate ... rooms in the Mount Vernon mansion since new evidence about Washington’s life surfaced in the last 10 years. Those have been found ...

Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare reference to the experimental smallpox inoculation that helped prevent outbreaks Eli Wizevich ...

Alexis Coe Alexis Coe is an historian and the bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington.

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.