Historian Alexis Coe, author of “You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of Washington,” said she thinks about Presidents Day in much the same way as the towering monument in D.C. that ...

Here's what you need to know about Presidents Day 2025. The holiday was originally intended to celebrate the birthday of the first President George Washington on Feb. 22, according to the Library ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday. And that’s entirely right and proper, as every ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

Our popular culture and even the law in some states now refer to the holiday as “Presidents Day.” That habit started by effectively combining the mid-February birthdays of George Washington ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences ... Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them. This Presidents Day, Washington’s cuts serve as a clarion call ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

George Washington was the first president of the United States. He has long been referred to as “the father of our country.” Yet as we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who he ...

The suit can teach visitors about the history of style in part by revealing that Washington had a proclivity for high-end fashion of the day. “I think maybe it challenges some people's preconceptions ...