George Washington

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.

The Marquis de Lafayette's name graces more city parks and streets than perhaps any other foreigner.

America's founders have never enjoyed more sex appeal, but the hit Musical cheats audiences by making democracy look easy

One of the very reasons the framers wanted the president to take a salary, was to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

Despite common belief, Washington, D.C. was not built on a swamp.

Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Keen to appear outward-looking and open to Western culture, in 1838 the Second King of Siam bestowed upon his son a most unusual name.

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.

A perusal of Benjamin Franklin’s "Drinker’s Dictionary," and a chat about how the drink of choice in revolutionary America switched from cider to rum.