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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration on March 4, 1861. BettmannT/Getty Images ...