For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with ...

The risk is that, if Trump sticks to his course, he will push the world back to the way it was in the age of empires a ...

One example is the Department of Education’s civil rights office (OCR). Typically, the OCR resolves dozens of racial ...

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Houston has long been shaped by the geopolitics of oil as well as our deep ties with Latin America, writes the Houston ...

George Washington’s image is reproduced millions of times each year on the $1 bill. Now, a portrait by artist Gilbert Stuart that inspired the engraving is heading to auction at Christie’s, where it’s ...

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Next month, Christie’s is christening America’s 250th birthday with its largest Americana Week ever. The nine-sale, 700-lot extravaganza will feature treasures like a signed copy of the Emancipation ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

After two years of renovations, the first and second floors of George and Martha Washington’s mansion at Mount Vernon have reopened to visitors. The $40 million preservation project at the first ...

George Washington retired from the Continental Army in front of his officers at a tavern in New York following the Revolutionary War. The address he gave was described as an emotional moment; everyone ...