Since inaugurations started to be held outside in 1817, Trump's will be just the fourth inauguration in history to be held ...

A president’s inauguration is a historic day, where scores of Americans travel across the country to see their new president get sworn in and give their first speech as commander in chief.

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

From historic Bibles to the leading role of the country's chief justice, Inauguration Day has been filled with traditions.

What is the polar vortex? How it’s responsible for dangerous cold Ronald Reagan had both the warmest and the coldest January ...

JD Vance will be the first vice president to have a beard since 1909, when Charles W. Fairbanks served as Theodore ...

On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison delivered what is the longest inaugural address in United States history, both in ...

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George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

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

Melania Trump first caused controversy during the president-elect’s first administration when she and Barron, who was 11 years old at the time, did not move to Washington, D.C., until after the ...