The social-justice movement that began in earnest with Trayvon Martin’s shooting in 2012, and culminated eight years later, ...

The beginning of Santos’s prison sentence marks the end — for now — of a story that captivated Washington for months.

George Washington was a Founding Father of the United States, the nation’s first president, and a commander of the ...

A bronze plaque on the stone notes that Bancroft's birthplace is "Twenty feet to the east." The modest house where Bancroft was born, on Salisbury Street, just west of Montvale Road, is gone now, ...

Complete Guide to Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia, including things to do, history, nearby lodging an ...

George Bancroft was born on Oct. 3, 1800, into an accomplished family. His father, Aaron, fought in the Revolutionary War and went on to write a book on George Washington.

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish ...