Everything is gray today. From a distance, the dome of the Capitol looks like gray polished granite and in the bleak March sky has a sort of steel-engraving distinction. Close to, the big building ...

President-elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath of office for a second time on Inauguration Day, becoming the first ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration comes during the nation's worst economic crisis: the Great Depression. Banks have failed and savings accounts have been wiped out, so to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer talked about the emergence of the concept of a 'first 100 days' of a presidential term during ...

The service, an event held since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration in 1933, began at 11 a.m. ET and is being broadcast live on the cathedral’s website.

On the morning of March 4, 1933 an air of tense expectancy pervaded America. The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression, the nation's banks had been closed, and most ...

In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

On Jan. 20, 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol for a second presidential term. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to be sworn in on January 20.

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.