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 ...

Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, ...

President Trump decorated the Oval Office with a collage of family photos and other personal effects that were on full ...

After Joe Biden took office in 2021, reports emerged that he had removed the Diet Coke button from the presidential desk.

WASHINGTON - There’s no place like home. And for US President Donald Trump, home is back in the White House after four ...

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

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

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

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

Opinion: Trump comes to office at a moment of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that ...

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 ...