President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only ...

From historic Bibles to the leading role of the country's chief justice, Inauguration Day has been filled with traditions.

Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration on March 4, 1801, marked the first time a president was sworn in at the newly established ...

Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, ...

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

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

Opinion: Trump comes to office at a moment of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that ...

What would George Washington or Thomas Jefferson have made of social media? The question has occurred to Jeffrey Rosen because he believes that with the advent of these new communications technologies ...

The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Paul, however, is not without ...

The Trump Organization issued an ethics agreement that it said would govern how the family and President-elect Donald J.