Tim Jeal, who has died aged 81, was a fine novelist and memoirist, but was best known as a biographer of sons of Empire such ...

Only during the following decades, largely after American independence was secured, with a second defeat of the persistent ...

By Rob Whittle I thought I knew a lot about George Washington: the enigmatic-looking dude on the one-dollar bill, the great general, the false teeth, the innovative planter and, of course, the father ...

Sculptor Michael Hall knows everything there is to know about the third United States president. Thomas Jefferson was a historic hero to Hall, who can even cite that Jefferson helped popularize ice ...

In a move supporters consider common sense, Thomas Paine is one step closer to getting his own memorial in Washington, D.C.

As the Trump administration grows more absurd, D.C.’s comedians, artists, and agitators are turning ridicule into civic resistance.

The president wants the Smithsonian to add a colossal George Washington statue—and remove another work of abstract art in D.C ...

President Donald Trump demands a 30-foot George Washington statue replace the "Infinity" sculpture outside the National Museum of American History in Washington.

The president’s latest attack on the National Museum of American History reflects his longstanding desire for “patriotic” history.

Donald Trump wants a 30-foot ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington to replace the ‘Infinity’ sculpture at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. ‘That strange modernist sculpture tells ...