On Feb. 22, we celebrate the birthday of our first president, George Washington. I like to take this occasion to reflect on ...
In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare ...
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On Presidents Day, we celebrate the Father of America and his indelible mark on history. Our nation’s first president was born near Popes Creek, Virginia, on February 11, 1731. That date might have ...
Washington progressives are seeking to redesign the state flag and remove George Washington from the flag, calling the ...
Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...
The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.
His loyalties were to his nation and its young and fragile Constitution. Eventually, he put meaning to those loyalties by voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term. That set a precedent ...
Monday is Presidents’ Day. And while there doesn’t seem to be much agreement as to whether it is meant to celebrate the lives ...