Washington College News

Join Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Washington College in Lexington, VA in May, 1870 as he remembers his early life, the Civil War, and his relationship with General Grant.

The perspective of a donor is deeply personal, Susan Hawkens Whalton told her audience Wednesday evening at the 18th annual Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation reception honoring donors and scholarship recipients.

The testimony from scores of witnesses and survivors at the recent trial of former Guatemalan military dictator Efrain Rios Montt was no doubt gripping and emotionally gut-wrenching. Infants tossed into flaming homes.

Smacking a combined 28 hits in two games, the Washington College-sponsored squad from Jonesborough swept a pair of games on Tuesday evening at Elizabethton High School in National Babe Ruth play.

As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain.

Maryland's Washington College is preparing to announce the winner of the nation's largest literary prize for undergraduate college students.

University of Washington College of Education Dean Tom Stritiku s says being raised by Greek immigrant parents inspired him to approach learning as a powerful tool to improve lives.

A former Severna Park High School softball standout is wrapping up a stellar freshman season at Washington College .

CHESTERTOWN , Md.- Washington College senior men's soccer player Tim Marcin might graduate from the school $61,000 richer.

The MOOC or massive open online course movement isn't slowing down any time soon and one of the major players in the movement has just made the first step into the K-12 market.

Two years after leaving the White House, David Axelrod continues to advise President Obama, even as he begins work on his memoir and oversees a new Institute of Politics at his alma mater, the University of Chicago.

The cantonment was the site of the Continental Artillery's 1778-79 winter quarters and America's first military training academy.

It's obvious that Michael Reisman likes being around kids when, guitar in hand, he entered a classroom at the Sharon & Stephen Seidman Early Childhood Center at the West Orange JCC, a beneficiary agency of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, on a recent Thursday afternoon.

You would be hard-pressed to find a pitcher having a more dominant season in local college baseball than Division III right-hander Tommy Bergjans.

Daniel received a copy of Maya Jasanoff's "Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World." Her book, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, provides accounts of Americans who remained loyal to the British after the Revolutionary War and fled the United States.

The Washington College sailing team completed its 2012-13 season Saturday with a 12th-place finish out of 15 teams at the Admiral's Cup, hosted by the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Three returning citizens spoke out Wednesday on the issue of mental health ills inside America's prisons.