Two hundred and thirty years ago, as he prepared to leave office, George Washington delivered what may be the most ignored ...

The warnings George Washington made in his farewell address — about hyperpartisanship, excessive debt and foreign wars — have incredible resonance today, says John Avlon, the author of “Washington’s ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is, in effect, the culmination and fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence.

The two documents are the bookends of the American Revolution. That revolution began with the inspirational language of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote much of the Declaration of Independence; it ended ...