“What are we waiting on? Donald Trump’s face should be on Mount Rushmore. We got the votes in the house. We got the votes in ...

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

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

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

But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... the first act in a job that began with ...

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

Trump will stand at the podium in a time of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed the reins ...

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 ...

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

Despite social media attention, the Constitution protects freedom of religion. So putting a hand on a Bible, or even using ...