Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

Olivia Dunne and the LSU gymnastics team mourned the death of Tigers track star Dillon Reidenauer during their meet against ...

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

Boston Athenaeum head of special collections John Buchtel said because George Washington died without children, he willed the books to his nephew. They were later split among the president’s ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... will that the enslaved people at his home would be freed upon the death of his wife. He also allowed both free and enslaved Black people ...

Two Prince George’s County Public School students died from the flu, the school district superintendent confirmed to News4.

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s ... sank into soon after his death. Yet for each successive ...

Amid the abundance of controversies evoked by the presidencies of Donald Trump, I am anticipating legal scholars will opine ...

Bergen County detectives identified the man as Jairo Lopez-Lopez, 25, of Hempstead, New York. Authorities responded to Ross ...

Killed were 10-year-old Yafet Solomon, and Fitsum Kebede, 40, the neighbor watching over him as Yafet’s mother worked a housekeeping shift at George Washington ... house, a death trap, for ...