Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

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

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration on March 4, 1801, marked the first time a president was sworn in at the newly established ...

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But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... to setting forth political principles. The political history collections at the National Museum of American ...