The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...

Washington’s birthday – also lovingly called Presidents’ Day – a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as ...

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 ...

While the first and second inaugurations of President George Washington were held outside ... family Bible and swear the oath of office. The birthplace and childhood home of President Coolidge ...

In a highly coloured biography of famed Arctic maritime explorer Joseph Elzéar Bernier, he is credited with confronting an ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

Perle moved to Pittsburgh after marrying George Mesta, a steel magnate ... She spent that fortune to Washington, D.C., making herself famous, says Marie Ridder, a conservationist and retired ...

Virginia's Historic Triangle of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, considered America's birthplace, is a living classroom ...

The episode, which led to a U.S. Congressman calling for an investigation of possible sanctions violations by the Uzbek ...

George Burrill Stone was the first principal of what was then Fall River High School in 1849. Stone was born in Charlton, in central Massachusetts, in 1823. According to a biography published in ...