Visiting Mount Vernon could be seen as a right of passage for Americans. Be it on your eighth-grade field trip or as a ...

At the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, actors portraying Ross are busily sewing bedclothes for a doll-sized version of ...

Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of ... which formed in the years leading up to the Civil War to save Washington's house, kept it open to both sides during the ...

George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with ...

The slaves of George Washington must have found the hours ... in their private lives than those residing at the Mansion House (Mount Vernon), where personal servants had to be available well ...

George Washington took the oath of office as America’s first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

Rarely on display because it is so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

George Washington operated a whiskey distillery at Mount Vernon after leaving the presidency ... who left the White House nearly 44 years before his death. No ex-president piled up more achievements.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George ... after Washington became the nation's first president. Instead, Washington's ...