Veterans Day honors military service. The Fourth of July acknowledges the country’s independence. But Presidents Day is something of a mystery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not a catch-all holiday ...

I hope it will not be conceived from these observations, that it is my wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery ... Writings of George Washington from ...

but the fate of the more than 800,000 African Americans who remained in slavery had been set when the Constitutional Convention presided over by George Washington ratified a Constitution which ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... ardently hoped that “Legislative authority” would abolish slavery. Photograph by Michael Freeman/Corbis/Cordon Press But ...

George Washington Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War. He overcame countless obstacles in both getting his education and reaching professional advancement. He worked to help poor ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

Of the 31 people identified in the painting “General George Washington Resigning ... into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post analyzed more than 400 artworks in the ...

Iowa State University recognized George Washington Carver Day on Monday, holding a recognition program in the Memorial ...