In May 1894, Grover Cleveland spoke at the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington, quoting her son’s words, in effect, that the first president owed everything to her magnificent mothering. President ...

Go inside George Washington's Mount Vernon with its official historian, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Director of the Presidential Library. In our turbulent times where true leadership is lacking, the ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The site of an infamous friendly fire incident during the French and Indian War—one involving a future Founding Father—has finally been found. In ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in George Washington’s military career and have put what turned out to be a ...