The first floor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon will be open for the public to observe preservation work in progress on three days later this month, including Presidents Day, Feb. 17.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with his details: the domestically produced wool suit was meant to promote ...

Celebrate Presidents’ Day or Galentine’s Day, join anime and cosplay fans at Katsucon, or hear the NSO perform in unlikely ...

Rarely on display because it’s so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat, along with an opportunity to interact with ...

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold, using period materials and technique, are sewing a ...

Alexandria's George Washington Birthday Parade is on the same day as the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George ... Washington's inauguration was held in New York City. Before the inauguration, Washington traveled over 200 miles from his home in Mount Vernon ...

Technically, all three ways of punctuating Presidents' Day are correct. "Presidents' Day" implies celebrating more than one ...

Nearly 300 years since George Washington ... around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and Washington biographer, put it, “He ...

It is often suggested that historical portraits avoided smiles because of poor dental hygiene, but in reality, social ...