Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was growing up, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents Day. It was observed on Feb. 22, the day George ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is marking a holiday meant to honor the nation’s first chief executive with social media messaging ...

See Smithsonian magazine contest photos that honor U.S. presidents and their monuments Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Donny Bajohr Text by Tracy Scott Forson This statue ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. Yet the nation will once again ...

President George W. Bush meets with former Presidents and President-elect Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Being president of ...