Today’s civic texts are less sure. Worthy public actions are not necessarily rooted in private virtue, they seem to say.

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A persistent myth about Donald Trump is that he had the Resolute Desk (made from the HMS Resolute and gifted to president ...

Shipping preorders for Cherry Thing-A-Lings from Schmidt Bakery in Batesville, Indiana, will begin Monday. Last year, the owners of the bakery limited shipping capacity to 500 dozen per day and sold ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

When George Washington was six, he received a hatchet as a gift and chopped away at a cherry tree at the family farm on the Rappahannock River in Virginia. When challenged by his angry father ...

Inside it, National Park Ranger Ryan Ventura says is the actual stone where George Washington stood to take the oath of office to become president of the United States back on April 30 ...

The Potomac River in Washington is frozen. On Friday afternoon, divers on a D.C. police boat maneuvered through slabs of ice atop the water and recovered the second of two dead bodies—a pickup ...

George Washington could have been a king ... myth of Washington and his inability to lie about chopping down a cherry tree, the basic message being that presidents should embody the very ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

President-elect Donald Trump is returning to Washington triumphant: His legal cases are behind him, corporate executives are flocking to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him, his inaugural committee has ...