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

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

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

Read an analysis › Returning to Washington ... Abraham Lincoln — was not immediately clear. The White House did not immediately return a message seeking comment. At his first inauguration ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

In the late 1960s, a poll of historians ranked Truman fifth among all presidents at that time behind only George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and the two Roosevelts. The lesson for us is that we ...

Few before you who got so adulated in the self-styled “land of the free” and “home of the brave” are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jnr, Benjamin Franklin ...

Donald Trump will become the 47th President on Monday. However, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand out as America's greatest leaders in its 250-year history. Listen to ...

What Trump did in his first inaugural speech was to paint a picture of a very dark reality, one that included not only ...

But on the eve of the election, a celebrity pastor named Jonathan Cahn wants his evangelical ... Trump would “drain the swamp” of Washington and “make America great again.” ...