Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.
Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...
“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...
Fashion has always been political, but never more so than when coupled with the towering bully pulpit of the U.S. presidency.
Data show that recent presidents especially have started their terms with unifying language. Words like "together," "us," ...
Monday’s change of Oval Office occupants is a ritual full of traditions and customs. One of the more modern ones began in 1989, when Ronald Reagan left a note for George H.W. Bush on stationery with a ...
On the eve of Trump’s second inaugural address, Americans wonder whether he will follow the path of Jefferson and Lincoln ...
The ceremony, which will be held inside the Capitol Rotunda because of the cold, will cap his remarkable return to the ...
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Revisiting Dwight Eisenhower’s 1953 inauguration, from the vantage point of George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration.
The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure of the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ...
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