(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea ... down to have absolutely no identifiable features.” Here is a look at how things have evolved: Washington was ...

In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president ... “This horrible mask-like face.” “It didn’t look like any other portraits in the ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

On the eve of his 293rd birthday, George Washington got his Springfield party Friday afternoon, as members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno gathered at the ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

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 ...