Tostmann introduces his survey with a pair of pastels by the British artist James Sharples of George and Martha Washington, each created circa 1798 and accessioned by the institution in 1848. (A tool ...

At a historical state house museum there are many things one would expect to see. Restorations of Senate and House chambers?

Justice. Mercy. Charity. Humility: This is Micah 6:8. It sounds as if Washington is writing a sermon, not a letter to ...

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

When Daniel Wadsworth founded his eponymous museum in his home city of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1842, the collection comprised 79 paintings and a handful of sculptures ...

John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic ...

The Academy Award-nominated actor is under fire for a series of tweets that resurfaced Thursday, expressing her views on topics such as race and religion. Read our review of The Brutalist, which ...

In the image released in Black and White, Melania Trump is dressed in a suit, standing in front of a window with the Washington Monument in the rearview. While sharing the new portrait on X ...

The White House unveiled the official portrait of US First Lady Melania Trump. The black-and-white image features Melania in a suit, standing by a window with the Washington Monument visible in ...

The new White House portraits of the first lady and the president ... She stands with her gaze cast directly at the viewer with a blurred Washington Monument in the distance.

the Washington Monument out of focus behind her. Her gaze is trained directly at the camera. The first lady’s portrait — and specifically, the pose she struck — has been compared online to ...