Hike the trails at the site of a former ironworks that molded Nathanael Greene into a skillful general in the fight for ...

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come As a 26-year-old colonel, Washington ...

An exhibit about slavery outside Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, shown here in Oct. 2025, was removed by the National Park Service on Jan. 22, 2026.Michael Yanow—NurPhoto via ...

This year marks 250 years since our country's founding on July 4, 1776. And in honor of the nation's semiquincentennial, KDKA-TV has embarked on a weekly series of stories that look to not only tell ...

George Washington was born on Friday, Feb. 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Details regarding his childhood are limited. As a child, he lived at several of the properties owned by his ...

It has been years of planning and executing, but the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate is complete just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday. “If ...

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar -- and possibly billion-dollar -- fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota's Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one ...

Next month, Christie’s is christening America’s 250th birthday with its largest Americana Week ever. The nine-sale, 700-lot extravaganza will feature treasures like a signed copy of the Emancipation ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

Glenn Beck wants you to know that the “final chapter” of his career involves interviewing a cartoon George Washington. Last weekend, Beck dropped a preview of “George AI,” an AI chatbot he’s been ...