"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to ...

Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ...

"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to the new doc series 'Thomas ... state (under George Washington), the ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the ...

New Jersey backed George Washington twice. Washington received all six of the state’s electoral votes in 1789.  New Jersey gave six of their votes for ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.