Washington’s birthday was celebrated by his peers in government when ... whose books include “Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.

Washington’s birthday was celebrated by his peers in ... whose books include “Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.” ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual. In the early 19th century, for instance, a formal ...

the holiday was originally called Washington's Birthday and celebrates the birthdays of former presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, according to the National Archives. It was also the ...

Officially known as Washington's Birthday, the first federal holiday of the year was originally meant to honor the country's first president, George Washington. According to the then-used Julian ...

The holiday, an outgrowth of national recognition of George Washington’s birthday, will be observed on Monday. There will be no mail delivery, caller service or Post Office Box service that day.