As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

A long-lost letter from George Washington hints at the first president’s financial woes, and it is expected to fetch $50,000 at auction.

NOBODY’S PERFECT Alexis Coe examined a small library of books about our first president and noticed something interesting. She writes, "No woman has written an adult biography of George ...

Washington may be “all around us,” on money and the name of the U.S. capital, but Americans generally don’t understand him, said Doug Bradburn, the president and chief executive of George ...