Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet for all their intensity, today’s arguments about Washington are hardly new. In fact, disputes over how to acknowledge our ...

NEW YORK -- Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it sentimentalizes a brutal part of American history. "A Birthday Cake for George Washington ...

After President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled exhibits about the horrors of slavery at the President’s House Site earlier this year, the federal government planned to replace them with its ...

*Following outrage, Scholastic has decided to pull its new picture book about George Washington that sentimentalized the practice of American slavery. “A Birthday Cake for George Washington” was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHILADELPHIA — Michael Coard is a criminal defense lawyer, and he peppers his thoughts about The President's House with a familiar ...

An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month, a federal judge ...

The National Park Service’s removal of an exhibit from Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia honoring nine Black Americans who were enslaved by George and Martha Washington was the most ...

The federal government shutdown that started Oct. 1 has kept Independence National Historical Park closed. Not only has this stymied the plans of thousands who visit the city to see where the country ...

A week after news broke of the federal government’s possible removal of the President’s House site at Independence Mall, local supporters of the memorial that honors President George Washington’s nine ...

An exhibit about slavery outside Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, shown here in Oct. 2025, was removed by the National Park Service on Jan. 22, 2026. Credit - Michael ...