The USS George Washington and its strike group recently pulled into Guam for a port call after several weeks of training.

Alexis Coe, historian and author of “You Never Forget Your First” - a new biography of George Washington - talks to Jane Carr about why it’s so important to stop the mythmaking about the ...

In 1780, the British forces attempted to capture George Washington, the Continental Army’s leader, and end the American Revolution. Here’s why the plan failed.

The national holiday called Washington's Birthday may have passed, but today is George Washington’s real 285th birthday. Here are interesting facts about the first president, including his ...

But Coe’s offering is still a full biography, covering birth to death and the highlights of his life and career between. And, because it’s a biography, George Washington remains at the center.

You know the story. A young George Washington chops down a cherry tree with his ax, and then when questioned by his father, admits he did it, saying “I can’t tell a lie.” Fantastic, except the story ...

Philip Smucker, a fifth great-grandnephew of George Washington, talked about his book, [Riding with George: Sportsmanship and Chivalry in the Making of America's First President]. Mr. Smucker ...

I was totally fascinated that Obama chose George Washington as the touchstone American-history figure in his inaugural. This was not an obvious choice. Lincoln, FDR, or even MLK would have been.

Throughout American history, George Washington has been renowned for being first and much more: his boyhood moral rectitude, for example, and for his body parts – real and fictional.

Alexis Coe, historian and author of “You Never Forget Your First” - a new biography of George Washington - talks to Jane Carr about why it’s so important to stop the mythmaking about the ...