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America 250: Washington — The making of America’s first president

Before he was the father of our country, before he led Continental Army soldiers across an icy Delaware River, before he ...

George Washington Transfer Vincent Chaudhri Commits to Wake Forest

Chaudhri is a 6-7 forward from Wallkill, NY who redshirted the 2025-26 season at George Washington. He was 3-star prospect ...
Fairmont Sentinel

The making of America’s first president: George Washington’s military, political careers began in Winchester, Virginia

This is the first in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our ...
Council on Foreign Relations

George Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation

The 1793 declaration that the United States would remain neutral in the war between Britain and France divided the country ...

Before Washington could lead America, he had to learn to lose

George Washington is today remembered first for heroically leading a ragtag rebel army to world-changing triumph over the ...

George Washington Understood the Perils of the Office

George Washington’s presidency is known best for being the first, and then for establishing the tradition that presidents ...

On this day: On his first day in New York, George Washington doesn’t waste any time

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions ...

Trump administration looks to sanitize George Washington’s slavery history

New renderings reveal the historical whitewashing that Trump’s White House is trying to impose at the President’s House Site ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington

The Landsdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired as a gift to the nation through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds ...