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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trump comes to office at a moment of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed the reins of the ...

The U.S. Constitution requires every president-elect to swear the Oath of Office—and that’s about it. “I do solemnly swear ...

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

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is promising to implement Donald Trump’s “America First” vision as secretary of state ...