Our nation’s first president was also a farmer and he believed in being a good steward in a different era, Dave Bergmeier writes.

The aging owners of James Monroe’s Loudoun County estate have turned down offers from developers of more than $55 million because they want the state to have it as a park.

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Washington was part of a new generation of readers with multiple access to printed books, almanacs, lectures and newspapers like never before. He reportedly followed these conversations from scholars ...

The couple resides in the home that they met in during the 1960s, a place that has witnessed their love story unfold.

Laura Dean Bennett Staff Writer For self-styled students of American history, like me, Presidents Day provides an annual ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to ...

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George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating the first U.S. president on Monday.