President George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States on this day in history, April 30, 1789. In his address, which he delivered at New York City's Federal Hall, ...

With the United States’ 250th birthday coming up on July Fourth, it may seem like George Washington is everywhere, from a ...

His 1781 terms of surrender to Gen. Charles Cornwallis ended the war’s last major land battle.

From New York to Mount Vernon, 1782-1786. Retiring becomes him ; Reeling in the West ; To go or not to go -- To, from, and in Philadelphia, 1787. The center holds ; In his image ; "Little short of a ...

Historian Allen (Tories), who died in 2018, recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. (“Everything that happened in that epochal ...

After eight years of leading the fledgling colonies in their war for independence, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief in order to return to private life. Yet the difficulties of ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Sept. 24, 1789, President George Washington announced his six nominees to make up the first Supreme Court of the United States. He selected John Jay as the first Chief Justice.

(WHTM) — On this day in 1789, President George Washington issued his first proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving for Thursday, Nov. 26, in honor of the establishment of the new Constitution, ...