George Washington

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.

Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century may have undermined trust in government.

The 1790s debate shows that, even when they aim at moral goods, tariffs abet cronyism and corruption.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.