Neither Washington nor Jefferson should be judged as harshly as Confederate figures because they devoted their lives to "saving and founding this country," he told the BBC in 2017.

‘A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson and the American Republic’ By Francis D. Cogliano Harvard University Press, 368 pages. Francis Cogliano begins his parallel lives biography by ...

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson led almost every effort Virginia and the colonies undertook during the during the American Revolution and the early United States. Historian and author ...

George Washington’s standing in the American pantheon will be secured as long as the United States endures — today is Presidents Day, after all, on which we observe Washington’s birthday ...

In 1796, President George Washington was so distressed by the way America was splitting into two political factions — the Democratic-Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson, and the Federalists of ...

But like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and John Adams and George Washington – granted, he was already fighting the British up in Boston that long ago summer – we like our ice cream.

A statue of George Washington has stood watch over an intersection near an entrance to Druid Hill Park for more than a century, its stoic face gazing down a tree-lined road toward Druid Hill Avenue.

Now, let’s rename the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial, because George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were slave owners. That is indefensible, yes, ...

One was a staunch pragmatist, the other an unabashed idealist. In “The Great Divide,” historian Thomas Fleming pits the competing visions of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and draws ...

But like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and John Adams and George Washington – granted, he was already fighting the British up in Boston that long ago summer – we like our ice cream.