A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past.

The “Warrior Dividend” that President Donald Trump announced Wednesday is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president appeared to suggest during his televised address to ...

John Adams found himself on the wrong side of history in 1789 and paid a price for it. As vice president of the United States ...

George Washington everyone should know, from his battlefield innovations and fear of being buried alive to his unexpected ...

In 1789, shortly after taking office as the first president of the United States, George Washington issued a proclamation of ...

Among our nation's "firsts" were the introduction of the separation of church and state and George Washington's proclamation for a "day of public thanksgiving and prayer." ...

Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...

Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, in 1789,the Town of Chelsea, (now Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop), had a total population of 472 residents, with a majority of the population living in the Revere ...

Emeritus Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University; Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia The two documents are the bookends of the American Revolution. That revolution began ...

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): This is about more than prices for consumers. Pat Buchanan pointed out in 2019: "Tariffs are the taxes that made America great." The tariff act signed into law by George ...

White house chef holds plate of strawberry dessert - Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Cue that "Yankee Doodle" fife and drum banger. Sure the stuff about soft-launching the country and serving global ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.