A late-18th century painting of George and Martha Washington with their adoptive children, George Washington Parke Custis and Nelly Custis, as well as one of their slaves. Edward Savage/Public Domain ...

Left: "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze (American, Schwaebisch Gmuend 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0 Go Deeper education ...

The 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” amplifies the myth of George Washington as warrior. Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art Washington wanted children, but he and Martha ...

The children in the portrait are Martha Custis Washington's grandchildren, to whom George was a father figure. National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection ...

At Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home just outside Washington, D.C., learn about the slave community and how Washington decreed his slaves be freed on his wife’s death.

President George Washington had no children of his own, but new research has identified the remains of two of his grandnephews and their mother. Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Madame Tussauds’s District location has added a Presidents Gallery showing every chief executive from George Washington to Barack Obama. Broken into small rooms that cover certain moments in the ...

One of the most popular stories about Washington’s childhood is often used to teach children about honesty. ... “Joice Heth (c.1756 -1836).” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, https: ...