Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...

Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

How Donald Trump's presidential inauguration unfolded as he was sworn in as the 47th President to succeed Joe Biden.

Judy Garland, Wernher von Braun, Supreme Court justices, major politicians—there was nothing quite like Perle Mesta’s parties ...

I struggled for a way to memorialize the dawning in Washington of Hell’s Encore. Finally, I gave up and fell back on what I think is the greatest paragraph of political journalism of at least the past ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United States history.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Capital team short on experience and playing for the first time since New Year’s Eve faced quite a challenge Thursday night as it welcomed one of the state’s most ...

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