One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...
But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... to setting forth political principles. The political history collections at the National Museum of American ...
The inauguration of the president hasn't always happened in Washington — or in January. Here's how inaugurations have changed ...
This button from George Washington’s first inauguration visually unified the states of the Union. National Museum of American History These addresses are more than just a series of individual speeches ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United ...
its history is as old as America. Rarely on display because it’s so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat ...
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 ...
President Donald Trump went big on building himself up as a hero triumphing over evil, and he leaned in on “Manifest Destiny.