The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated ...
- Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller administers the oath of office to President-elect William McKinley during his ...
Donald Trump will become the oldest person to be sworn in as U.S. president, taking the title from Joe Biden by five months.
SPEECH: Since George Washington in 1789, every President has delivered an Inaugural address, ranging from 8,445 words to just 135.
William Jennings Bryan, who favored the free coinage of the less valuable metal. Choosing to honor McKinley — who Mr. McKinley called “Champion of the Gold Standard” — was a stinging rebuke. The ...
Should a name chosen by someone in 1897 trump a name used by Koyukon people for thousands of years just because they didn’t publish it in a newspaper before he did?
A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...