Its wood-paneled walls are filled with art, including a life-sized portrait of President George Washington painted ... Behind him, his gray horse, Blueskin, rears in anticipation of the coming ...

Boston Athenaeum head of special collections John Buchtel said because George Washington died without children, he willed the books to his nephew. They were later split among the president’s ...

That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow patriot Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee is probably still the best summation of the man who, over a hard but resolute ...

His profile is featured in one of the most famous paintings in American history. George Washington was the first ... riding the proverbial white horse. In so many ways he is responsible for ...

On the eve of his 293rd birthday, George Washington got his Springfield party Friday afternoon, as members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno gathered at the ...