Throughout American history, George Washington has been renowned for being first and much more: his boyhood moral rectitude, for example, and for his body parts – real and fictional. Whether ...

The Port Authority of New York—Getty Images View of the George Washington Bridge from Washington Heights in Manhattan across to Fort Lee in New Jersey, 1932. Underwood Archives—Getty Images.

George Aquilla Hardy created an image of what he thinks George Washington would look like today. Hardy used Photoshop to layer Washington's portraits with photos of Glenn Close and Michael Douglas ...

There’s good news for the marble bust of George Washington housed at the Old North Church: Christopher Gutierrez knows all the tricks to fix any blemish.

Amid Controversy, Scholastic Pulls Picture Book About Washington's Slave : The Two-Way The book tells the story of Hercules, a slave whom George Washington used as a chef. The book shows Hercules ...

The national holiday called Washington's Birthday may have passed, but today is George Washington’s real 286th birthday. Here are interesting facts about the first president, including his ...

The United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington—homeported in Japan—continues its preparations for an upcoming patrol in the western Pacific Ocean.. Lieutenant ...

The George Washington Bridge is formally dedicated by Gov. Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, left, and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, right, as they cut the ribbon stretched across the ...

But Washington was not the only president born in confusing times. The first four U.S. presidents — Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison — were all born before 1752, and all had to move ...

The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

Two unforgettable images run through Ron Chernow's great book, "Washington: A Life," and they have nothing to do with cherry trees or wooden teeth or silver dollars thrown across the Potomac. The ...

Alexis Coe, historian and author of “You Never Forget Your First” - a new biography of George Washington - talks to Jane Carr about why it’s so important to stop the mythmaking about the ...