When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, he didn't have his hand on the Bible. Does this matter and why do ...

“We are all Republicans; we serve all Federalists,” Thomas Jefferson said a few months ... grace notes to the wider world. In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry Truman offered a ...

This year, Inauguration Day falls on Monday, Jan. 20. In honor of the day, you’ll find a collection of stirring Inauguration ...

Another return to the Oval Office in Trump 2.0 is a sculpture called “The Bronco Buster” by artist Frederic Remington, which sits under the portrait of Jackson.

beginning with Thomas Jefferson in 1801 in the new Capitol, the historical society notes. Washington’s inauguration took place on April 30, but subsequent ones were held on March 4, as set by ...

This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and second inaugural addresses (1801, 1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

Thomas Jefferson became the first president to have his inauguration speech printed in a newspaper the same day he gave his address in 1801. The National Intelligencer printed the speech on the mo ...

somewhat akin to the circumstances that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed the reins of the executive branch. Jefferson, in his first inaugural address in 1801 ...

In 1801, Washington, D.C., saw its first presidential inauguration; the first two presidents had been inaugurated in New York City and Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson walked from his boarding house ...

Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural in 1801 may have been the most explicit: “We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” ...