Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...

On the bicentenary of Dance’s death, the Soane museum has mounted an online exhibition of Dance-associated objects and drawings, giving us insight into this unjustly unknown figure. —BR Events: ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a ...

Two of her five-times great grandfathers, John Westcott and Dr. John T. Hampton, made the famous crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, with Washington, then commander-in-chief ...

Independence Hall in Philadelphia. But one of the most iconic depictions of the Revolution, Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, was actually painted much later, in 1851.

Events in the Capital Region this week, from Doug E. Fresh, Barenaked Ladies and Jessie Mueller, to the New York City Ballet, ...

During a trip to Washington, Rios was introduced to an aide to now-Sen. Jim Banks, of Indiana, who asked if he’d like to fit some friends for suits. One fitting turned into several. At one point ...

Morven, 55 Stockton Street, will hold its annual Independence Day festivities on Friday, July 4, from 12 to 3 p.m. For this ...

The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on sacred cows—liberal and conservative. And we need your support. The poem that inspired the song, America ...