Federal Hall, at Wall and Broad streets, stands at the site where George Washington took the Oath of Office on April 30, 1789, to become the first U.S. president. Presidential, Congressional and Court ...

A journey around Lower Manhattan highlights the roots of Revolution in the nation's first capital, now New York's largest city.

Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...