President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

That famous description of George Washington by his friend ... Resigning his commission, he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting a family farm ...

Of course, this meant an early morning for anyone trying to ... Toward the end of George Washington's life, farm manager James Anderson tightened the privilege a bit by requiring that slaves ...

George Washington took the oath of office as America’s first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s ... for the rest of his life. Carver spent a lot of ...

1934-1956 Professor, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. During the early years in Washington he collaboratedwith Edward Teller on the theory of beta-decay, and formulated the so-called ...