National Park Service employees have flagged several books to remove from their gift shops as part of the Trump ...

As It Happens6:45Scholastic pulls Children's book with controversial portrayal of slavery A controversial children's book about George Washington's slaves has been pulled by its publisher. A ...

But how these books — and more than a hundred others kept elsewhere in the library — ended up in Boston is a story in its own right. Boston Athenaeum head of special collections John Buchtel said ...

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...

Troops led by Col. George Mercer were also sent to aid the British in defense of the fort. An excerpt from a biography, The Life of General Washington, written by Washington’s friend, Col. David ...