Donald Trump will become the 47th President on Monday. However, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Trump has based his cabinet appointments on who idolizes him the most and who agrees with his un-American promises, like ...

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A ...

One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...

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 ...

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one at that.

While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald ...

The collection contains signatures from 41 of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, including George Washington ... sent on March 2, 1794. Abraham Lincoln's signature can be found on a framed ...

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 ...

January would pass by without much fanfare, and Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and George Washington’s birthday—along with Groundhog Day and Valentine’s Day—were the days Americans ...

Abraham Lincoln helped establish the standard for ... As with most presidential traditions, George Washington is a good place to start. The United States’ first commander in chief requested ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington ... The Civil War had been grinding on for almost ...