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

It's Presidents Day, the holiday that started in honor of George Washington -- the president with an enormous birthday candle on the Mall. But do we revere the father of our country too much? It was a ...

If the monarchical trappings and powers of the modern presidency are unavoidable, we at least should not encourage them. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court has its own holiday. The presidency ...

Washington was a man for the ages. Born a Virginia aristocrat, he carefully cultivated his virtues — self-control, moderation ...

The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington ... including Washington and Lincoln whose birthdays bookend that Monday. Modern presidents have observed the holiday in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, acquired by the Raab Collection, was written during the Revolutionary War ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king.

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