Washington was a man for the ages. Born a Virginia aristocrat, he carefully cultivated his virtues — self-control, moderation ...
The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...
Is Presidents Day the most confusing holiday in the U.S.? States seem to have as many names for it and ideas about whom to ...
The United States began celebrating its first president ... George Washington was not a huge fan of celebrating his birthday. A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day ...
The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.
Joe Biden took more days off than any other president in a single four-year term in at least the last 50 years, new data ...
President's Day started in the 1880s when Americans first began celebrating the birth of President George Washington as a federal holiday, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Washington ...
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 ...