UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first president’s administrations.

America’s first presidential campaign was, in fact, a broad effort to persuade ... Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the ...

Her campaign ad features side-by-side photos ... "Historians are still writing books about the other George [Washington]. ...

Progressive Washington state lawmakers have introduced a bill that could remove George Washington from the state flag. House Bill 1938 aims to create a committee that will design a new state flag ...

At 17 years old, George Washington served as county surveyor of Culpepper County. Washington’s military career began when he was 21 years old. Campaign In 1789, only 10 of the 13 original colonies ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington ... Or the central theme of his campaign against Harris, the ...

Above all, Washington was a farmer. On his Mount Vernon estate, in northern Virginia, he grew tobacco and wheat and operated a gristmill. After his second term as president, he built a profitable ...