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.

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

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

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

The commander-in-chief initially barred black soldiers from joining the ranks, but he came to understand the value—both moral and strategic—of a diverse force.

What looks like an excess of strength may really be a deficit of liberty.

How a dispute with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor made the southern colonies’ embrace the radical cause.

Circumstances in which people are feeling extreme disorientation are potent breeding grounds for people who are willing to exploit it in moments of crisis.

At the time of the Civil War, many Americans revered the nation’s Founding Fathers, and both supporters and opponents of slavery recruited them to their sides.