George Washington

The first businessman president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to create an efficient federal government.

“The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president wrote.

King George and George Washington, featured in an upcoming exhibit.

The connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.

We don't need to find heroes in our past presidents. We need to try to understand that tyranny has always been part of American freedom.

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

Plus: How George Washington almost ruined his own exit from the national stage.

Remembering an exchange between George Washington and the poet Phillis Wheatley.

How family political dynasties in America came to be.

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.

How the Caribbean colony contributed to America's fight for independence.

Congress hasn't declared it often. The U.S. has fought a lot of war anyway. How?

Washington was a savvy packager of his own personal virtues. He knew that if you don’t engage in a bit of self-aggrandizement, you lose.

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

In 1790, George Washington fell severely ill, threatening his life and the young nation he led.

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.

The father of the country was a team player who had no interest in displays of hyper-masculinity.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

A review of "Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle," by Jonathan Horn.

How the dental history of the nation’s first president is interwoven with slavery and privilege.