George Washington

British occupation brought challenges to the very foundation of the American home.

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

And what Congress can learn from his efforts.

The economics of childbirth under slavery.

The 45th president, no student of history, marveled at the first president's failure to name his historic compound after himself.

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

The Founding Fathers relied on deceit in championing American independence—and that has lessons for the present.

George Washington knew the perils of letting scandals linger.

For most of American history, Washington's Birthday was a really big deal, but that’s changed a lot since the middle of the twentieth century.

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.

The memorials to the two parishioners will be relocated to a new place of “respectful prominence.”

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.

A Canadian take on America's Revolutionary War.

The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.