Washington’s birthday (also lovingly called Presidents’ Day) is a holiday where mattresses are somehow as celebrated as America’s first president. But before we lose ourselves in visions of ...

From the republic’s founding, leaders recoiled at monarchic pomp. Congress turned February 22 — George Washington ’s birthday — into a national holiday, but the man himself wanted none of it.

A major restoration project is underway at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia, in preparation for America’s 250th Birthday next year.