George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

Finalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...