George Washington

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?

Ross Bullen explores the curious case of Prince George Washington, a 19th-century Siamese prince.

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.

Even the most mundane of objects associated with the Founding Father have a story.

George Washington gave orders to destroy towns and take prisoners in Sullivan’s Campaign, but her story lives on.

The early controversy over whether or not to build the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III. But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.

How 13 colonies came together.