A historical documents dealer announced the discovery of a long-lost letter from George Washington. The 1787 letter shows that the future first president was once hard-pressed for cash. The letter, ...

George Washington led the war that saw the American colonies win their independence from Britain in 1783. Four years later the general was back at his Virginia plantation, trying to finish a ...

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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 over the ...

George Washington’s many ties to Alexandria, Va., included friendships with two men who owned the two properties that make up the house and grounds at 210 Duke St., now on the market for $4.99 million ...

An impassioned letter penned by George Washington in 1787 about the strengths of the newly written U.S. Constitution was sold at auction in New York on Friday for a record price of $3.2 million.

George Washington was by all accounts “the indispensable man” of the American Founding. He was the military commander who led a ragtag Continental army to victory against the strongest and best ...