Thousands of people gathered in and around America’s capital city on its 249th birthday for bands, barbecues and Beyoncé — lining up hours before showtime for Cowboy Carter merch. Sipping cold drinks ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is one of the most famous speeches (actually, an address published in the newspapers) in American history. It is usually remembered for its warnings against ...

George Washington's 223-year-old copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights are expected to go for bids of $2 million to $3 million at auction next week.

And I just got to the part (page 539 in case you want to read along) where Chernow is addressing what Washington thought about the Constitution after it was drafted but before it was ratified ...

President George Washington's personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights was recently auctioned at Christie's in New York City for $9.8 million, the most ever paid for an American ...

A letter on God and the Constitution written by George Washington is up for sale after spending decades in a private collection. The letter to Richard Peters, speaker of the Pennsylvania House, is ...

June 12, 2012 -- In his first year as the first president, George Washington studied the United States' brand-new Constitution and decided he'd better take some notes. So he read the parts that ...

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. — George Washington ...

While many might think of James Madison as the father of the Constitution, George Washington is the man who made it all possible. Read more.

George Washington Said, 'If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, Then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led'? ... National Constitution Center – Constitutioncenter.Org, https: ...

In 1787, General George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention with sphinx-like inscrutability. He betrayed not a flicker of emotion as the architects of a new nation wrangled over ...

In August 1790, America was a new nation with a new constitution and a new government, ... George Washington receives the news that he was elected the United States' first president, in 1789.