George Washington

On Nathanael Greene’s inauspicious start.

On the construction of America's new capital city.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

Right from the beginning, a commercial spirit and the wealth it generated were essential to creating and constituting America.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

Federal lighthouses symbolized a vigorous young nation barreling toward maturity.

While many Americans gushed about the effectiveness of the ‘Destruction of the Tea,’ others thought it went too far.

Florida’s new standards for teaching social studies include throwbacks to an interpretation of slavery as benign or inconsequential.

Though technologies have altered information warfare, the underlying principles remain unchanged since the day-to-day operations of the Continental Army.

Harry Washington fought for his enslaver's enemy during the American Revolution. Later, he migrated to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.

How should a republic honor its leaders?

Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

Treaties with Britain, the Confederated tribes, and Spain revealed that America was still dependent on the greater geopolitics of the Atlantic World.

Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus.

Why we should resist hero-worshipping Ukraine’s president.

A single reference in the historical record has spawned an array of adaptations, most of which overstate the anonymous figure's role in the Culper Spy Ring.

West Ford’s descendants want to prove his parentage—and save the freedmen’s village he founded.