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 ...

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 History ...

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are ...

This button from George Washington’s first inauguration visually unified the states of the Union. Smithsonian's National Museum of American History These addresses are more than just a series of ...

Marina is Professor Emeritus in History at Florida ... one might question exactly how George Washington fits into that story? Two instances, one during the American Revolution, another during ...

One estimate puts his worth at, in today’s money, half a billion dollars: “George Washington was the richest man in America.” Howard Zinn, ‘A People’s History of the United ... University of Maryland ...

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

The inauguration of the president hasn't always happened in Washington — or in January. Here's how inaugurations have changed ...