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

Vance is undoubtedly setting the stage for the inevitable: Trump’s flouting of federal court orders, which, given Congress’s ...

ask the audience to ‘gaze upon’ traditional values…” In his 1801 inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson declared, “But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by ...

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

President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address ignored the path of reconciliation, magnanimity and unity that distinguished the historic addresses delivered by Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.

Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge were sworn in without a Bible as were Theodore Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams. Interestingly, Jefferson was a deist and produced his own version of the Bible ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Since 2005, a group of students from Sam Houston State University have taken a trip to attend the presidential inauguration of the term. Mike Yawn, a professor of political ...

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.

Nixon in 1973 spent less than $4 million on his inauguration. Carter in 1977 spent $3.5 million. Thomas Jefferson in 1801 simply walked to the Capitol to be sworn in and then walked home.

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 ...

In his second inaugural address ... respectively, Presidents Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, James Monroe acquired Florida, James Polk acquired Texas, California, Nevada ...