In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled ...

Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Two years later he was elected president. Photograph by Bridgeman ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Conventionwith sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George ... end, Washington agreed to lead the Constitutional Convention in May 1787.

George Washington was the first president of the ... Indeed, he served as the president of the convention of 1787 that produced in primary form the Constitution that governs the nation to this ...