George Washington Said, 'If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, Then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led'? ... That post had received around 70,700 likes and 16,000 reposts at the time of this writing.

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 ...

Years into writing a book on George Washington, I noticed something curious about my collection of the popular biographies already written about our first president: All of them were written by ...

Washington was writing to the man who’d been his second-in-command in his very first battle, more than 20 years earlier. It had been a blunder-filled disaster. They were forced to surrender.

From George Washington to now: Presidency and campaigns explained The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, ... Writing in the Federalist Papers, ...

The back of the reflector is lined with green silk. The candle stand and other relics of George and Martha Washington were sold to the United States government in 1878 by the Lewis family (descendants ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – George Washington, our first president, was born on this day in 1732. You probably learned a lot about him in school, but there's one part of his life that he may have ...