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 king.

Presidents Day evolved from honoring George Washington to a retail-driven holiday. Initially ignored by Washington himself, ...

Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...

Jeenah Moon for The New York Times ‘A snub to King George.’ In all of her years of researching Washington, Ms. Coe, the author of “You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of ...

This President’s Day is a good time to remember that Trump shares some of our past presidents’ worst qualities.

Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

When Eisenhower was thinking about running for president it was Anna Rosenberg who pivoted him from the military to politics.

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...