A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, ...

For this article, he interviewed Charlie Kirk four times and attended a donor meeting and a ball celebrating Donald Trump’s ...

James Monroe gave the first outdoor inaugural address in 1817 ... ask the audience to ‘gaze upon’ traditional values…” In his 1801 inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson declared, “But every difference ...

Columnist David Adler discusses the road less traveled taken by President Donald Trump in his Inauguration Day speech.

This photo, taken in 2019 on the day of the inauguration of Kristi Noem as the first-ever woman governor of South Dakota, shows the front of the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre. This year, the 100th ...

If you saw the front page of USA Today depicting President Donald Trump taking the oath of office, you could see he did not put his hand on the Bibles being held by First Lady Melania Trump as she ...

Opinion: Take a walk down memory lane with me as I recount the early excitement and adventure of living and working in the nation's capital.

This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and second inaugural addresses (1801, 1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

President Coolidge delivered his inaugural address at the Capitol in Washington, DC, March 4, 1925, marking the first national radio broadcast of a presidential inauguration. Photo by The Library of ...

inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda ... At least, this is what past presidents have believed. Thomas Jefferson said as much in 1801. “Every difference of opinion is not a difference of ...