We know George's baby sister Mildred died in 1740, and two letters from family acquaintances allude to a fire on Christmas Eve that same year. And we know Washington's father died in 1743 ...

This season's National Christmas Tree is a 35-foot Red Spruce from the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia. In 2023, a 40-foot Norway spruce from the Monongahela National ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington ... surprise attack. At Christmas 1776 Washington achieved his first ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...