A great American tale about honesty may not be all that honest. A myth surrounding George Washington, the first U.S. president and Founding Father has been debunked by contemporary historians. One ...

On Saturday, the Wikipedians of the world will unite in the first Great American Wiknic, a Wiki-Picnic for editors of the online encyclopedia. The contents of the picnic will be entirely user ...

For years, social media users have claimed the U.S. Capitol contains a tomb that was originally built for George Washington, the first U.S. president, but was never used and remains empty. While ...

The Mount Vernon Digital Encyclopedia identifies that book, The Life of Washington, as " the point of origin for many long-held myths about Washington." 15. He was an inveterate letter-writer.

How George Washington championed freedom for Jews, Catholics, ... Yet articles in the authoritative Mount Vernon Digital Encyclopedia say Washington actually visited the synagogue during that trip.

On the president's birthday, let's remember the night in 1787 when the Founding Fathers finished work on the Constitution, and Washington was feted at a Philadelphia tavern. Historians couldn't ...

President's Day started in the 1880s when Americans first began celebrating the birth of President George Washington as a federal holiday, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Washington, who was ...

President's Day started in the 1880s when Americans first began celebrating the birth of President George Washington as a federal holiday, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Washington was born ...