George Washington

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.

A newly minted celebrity to the world, the future president used his position to procure his preferred beast of burden from the king of Spain.

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

The British were a pain, to be sure, but what really caused him trouble were his teeth.

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.

The fable of George Washington's prayer was meant to foster religious tolerance, not paint him as a pious leader.

A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.

Of all the precedents the first president set, this is one of his most overlooked — and most important.

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

Expansionism, and sending the military into others' lands, is a critical component of American republicanism, and a factor in independence itself.

George Washington scales new heights.

When Native Americans met George Washington in 1753, they called him by the Algonquian name "Conotocarious," meaning "town taker" or "devourer of villages."

The following is a list of quotations misattributed to George Washington that have been sent to the Mount Vernon Library in recent years.

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

Washington’s ‘warrior ethos’ was grounded in decency, temperance and the capacity to act with courage without surrendering to rage.

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president on her own after her husband’s death.

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

Where they come from, how they've evolved, and how they could change.