Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Biden could be the first to write a ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure of the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United States history.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European ...

Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were also awarded the nation's highest civilian honor in a White House ceremony."For the final time as president ...