Washington’s birthday (also lovingly called Presidents’ Day) is a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as ...

We used to have a holiday for Washington's birthday, which seems altogether fitting. The honor to Washington was somewhat diluted by combining his birthday with that of Abraham Lincoln and calling the ...

Congress turned February 22 — George Washington’s birthday — into a national holiday, but the man himself wanted none of it. Franklin D. Roosevelt didn’t summon fanfare, he seeded it.

From the republic’s founding, leaders recoiled at monarchic pomp. Congress turned February 22 — George Washington ’s birthday — into a national holiday, but the man himself wanted none of it.

A long-planned celebration in Washington for the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary will coincide with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday on June 14.