President George Washington establishes religious freedom for all citizens. Explore how George Washington went past mere religious tolerance and established religious freedom for citizens. He ...

The erasure of the Founding Father's role in some of the nation's most heinous crimes is both hard to stomach and how we got here. Conservatives have spent weeks arguing about the Odyssey, complaining ...

In his farewell address, Washington warned of the danger of political parties. He believed that loyalty to a party over the nation would divide the country and he feared that cunning individuals would ...

As the nation celebrates its semiquincentennial, Catholic historians remember the father of our country as a central figure in the story of religious liberty in early America. ‘Scene at the Signing of ...

President George Washington’s letter to the Touro Synagogue of Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the “founding documents” that, I believe, really ought to be taught in U.S. schools. Washington wrote ...

The First Amendment and the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation both occurred in the autumn of 1789. George Washington issued a proclamation for a "day of public thanksgiving and prayer" just ...