The President of the United States serves as the Commander in Chief of the nation’s armed forces. While not in the chain of ...

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

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

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

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

The Night Garden by Michael Chabon Chabon’s first novel for adults since 2016, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel ...

President Biden is in the unique position of writing a letter — if he so chooses — to Trump, his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

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

Rarely on display because it is so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat.

Hamilton' is in the top three of my all-time favorite musicals. This cast left an indelible impression on me with their ...

Reagan’s inauguration was the first to be held on the west terrace of the U.S. Capitol, a vantage that planners selected both ...

Liz Thomson is the author of Joan Baez: The Last Leaf and the revising editor of Robert Shelton’s biography Bob Dylan: No ...