There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War. Historians trace ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

Historians trace the falsehood to the army’s disgruntlement with the Continental Congress delaying payment of a pay raise ... Later, he joined delegates from the states in presiding over the 1787 ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the foundling nation to military victory in the Revolutionary War.

In 2014, researchers from Mount Vernon found an accounting ledger at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles showing that while Washington was in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress in 1774 ...

though no one in 1787 anticipated the rise of political parties. For their part, the delegates could not conceive of a Congress that deferred to a president, much less took direction from him.

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...

There’s a historic myth that George Washington rejected an offer to serve as king instead of president for leading the ...

Historians trace the falsehood to the army’s disgruntlement with the Continental Congress delaying payment of a pay raise ...