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.
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 ...
A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...