What a difference a year makes—or in this case just four weeks since Trump’s inauguration—regarding the state of the nation ...

Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...

Most often, it’s Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War president who sometimes outranks even Washington among historians for keeping the Union intact. Fourteen states have a separate holiday just for ...

In an effort to provide more three-day weekends, it changed the observable days for several holidays, and it consolidated the birthday observances for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln into one ...

A historical exhibit at the Kansas Statehouse includes a display quoting President Abraham Lincoln next to a map showing the original extent of the Kansas-Nebraska territories before Kansas became a ...

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 ...

It seemed like a huge loss for the American forces under Gen. George Washington, who had been leading the battle for independence from Britain for almost two years. But on May 7, Washington wrote ...

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until ...

SEEMED TO JUST MARCH AWAY. SO WHERE IS THE LINCOLN DRUM? SO THE LINCOLN DRUM WAS CREATED FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOR HIS CAMPAIGN IN 1860. IT WAS MADE USING A RAIL THAT HE ACTUALLY HAD SPLIT HIMSELF.

George Washington University, a private institution, has been offering online bachelor's degree programs since before 2000-2001. All of the online classes are recorded and archived so students can ...

Susannah George is The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, based in Dubai, where she leads coverage of the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf and their neighbor, Iran. She previously spent ...