From the powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, and Pierre Trudeau, to rallying calls during war, civil ...

From the Revolution through present-day Civil Rights, the Richmond area tells history’s story. As a longtime history writer, ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else. He ...

As Emily Litella used to say, "Never mind." We've all done it, late at night, perhaps in the presence of people we want to impress: tapped our inner Socrates, talked ourselves up to the mountaintop, ...

Kamala Harris closed out the final night of the Democratic National Convention by using her time at the podium to tell the story of her childhood, discuss her presidential aspirations and formally ...

Claire Jerry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with ‘verbal tokens of unity.’ The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration ...