Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As ...

Kiplinger presents timeless personal finance wisdom from the Founding Fathers, echoing much of our own advice.

Columnist: As we celebrate the independence of the United States this July 4, I will be thinking with gratitude of those who ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

The founders didn’t foresee flight — but they knew a throne when they saw one. And to this George Washington scholar, Qatar’s $400 million jet gift to President Donald Trump reads like a ...

The words of Benjamin Franklin are often invoked nowadays. On Monday, Sept. 17, 1787, at the closing session of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, Franklin, a highly respected dele… ...

Get our newsletter! George Washington used the light of this brass candle stand while laboring over his farewell address in 1796. Richard Strauss / NMAH George Washington was a man of many talents.

In Washington’s day, goods moved from one colony to the other by rivers. Today, a ship loaded with Midwestern grain can arrive in China in about the same time it took a load of George Washington ...

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 ...

George Washington was one of the people who believed a stronger government was necessary. Although he wanted to stay home after the war and take care of his estate, he agreed to attend a meeting to ...

George Washington stood on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City on April 30, 1789, and took the oath of office, as the first President of the United States.