George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first president of the United States by all 69 presidential electors who cast votes.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency’s second day on Tuesday.

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second day on Tuesday.

George Washington was commanding the Continental Army and staying in Morristown when he wrote an optimistic letter on the ...

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

China moved into Sudan’s oil industry after Chevron Corp. left in 1992 amid violence targeting oil workers in another civil war. South Sudan broke away to become its own country in 2011 ...

Barbara J. George, 72, of New Sewickley Township, passed away peacefully from pulmonary hypertension and right-sided heart failure on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. Barbara was born to Rocco J.

Amid the methodical pace of the game, George Gregory Jr., CC ’31 ... a shot clock and was closer to playing with peach baskets than to the passing of the Civil Rights Act. Gregory Jr. averaged over 8 ...