Donald Trump will become the 47th President on Monday. However, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand out as America's greatest leaders in its 250-year history.

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...

Though modern job approval metrics were a bit lacking during the late 1790s, historians have for decades considered George ... States. Washington finished behind only Abraham Lincoln in the ...

George Washington took the oath of office as America’s first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

In the good ole days—and I guess that statement dates me—national holidays and national recognition days came few and far between. January would pass by without much fanfare, and Abraham ...

When Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with ...