Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the ...

The NIH says funding cuts would save it billions of dollars a year. D.C.-area industry and academic leaders say it would cripple R&D.

George Washington at the Battle of Princeton ... He then made a career of portraying early American heroes like Washington and Thomas Jefferson. “What am I looking at?” Soltis remembered thinking, per ...

A bottle of Egyptian blue hand mixed by George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was loaned by the Iowa State archives.

If the monarchical trappings and powers of the modern presidency are unavoidable, we at least should not encourage them. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court has its own holiday. The presidency ...

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...

He is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also ...

The founder of Johnson Products Co., as he insists in his new memoir, “Afro Sheen: How I Revolutionized an Industry with the ...

Laura Dean Bennett Staff Writer For self-styled students of American history, like me, Presidents Day provides an annual ...

The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an ...