The graying hair has been preserved in a locket that was given to a family friend of the Washingtons and passed down the ...

George Washington notably declared American democracy to be “an experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people”.

The Associated Press and other decision desks will begin tallying presidential election results the moment polls close, but ...

It's not well known to Americans that George Washington lost his first election — and equally important, he probably deserved ...

A quarter century ago, I stood beside John F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington. On a bright summer morning, I found myself before the grave of George Washington. At the Lincoln Memorial I thought back on ...

An FBI official said Wray was continuing to lead the bureau on a day-to-day basis — including visiting the FBI’s election ...

This lesson explores the provisions for federal elections in the original U.S. Constitution and the subsequent amendments. The lesson, which features Larry Garber, an adjunct professor at the George ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that 21st century Americans can scarcely imagine.

The presidential election of 1788 ... rule that any display of ambition would be unseemly. For another, George Washington, widely viewed as Father of His Country was, for all practical purposes ...

As the world turns its attention to the U.S. election on Nov. 5, presidential history aficionados may be particularly ...

"It is very unlikely that courts - including, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court - would permit a local state criminal ...