As part of those celebrations in Florida, statues of other Founding Fathers are planned to be shown in counties named after them: Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe counties. Florida is commissioning another Washington statue to be placed in Washington County.
Washington progressives are seeking to redesign the state flag and remove George Washington from the flag, calling the current design "outdated and uninspired."
WASHINGTON (AP) — A month into President Donald Trump ‘s second term, lawyers for the Republican administration seem intent on provoking a legal fight to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor that has been critical to the development of the modern U.S. government.
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t helpful.
Justice. Mercy. Charity. Humility: This is Micah 6:8. It sounds as if Washington is writing a sermon, not a letter to government officials, in invoking the “Divine Author.”
In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ended up in the British Museum instead.
The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s ... Every year since 1896, the Senate has selected one of its ...
The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, but the facts of the matter are more complicated.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Former Oklahoma senator David Boren, who became one of the nation’s youngest governors in the 1970s at age 33 and later helped shape national intelligence as a senator, has died. He was 83.