Inaugural addresses by modern presidents, including Trump, often outline goals and address current challenges. The impact of these speeches may not be fully realized until years later.

What Trump did in his first inaugural speech was to paint a picture of a very dark reality, one that included not only “American carnage” but a landscape blighted by “rusted-out factories, ...

He gave a speech. Every president since has ... of their role within the broader system. In his first inaugural in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt moved out of campaign mode and acknowledged the ...

The incoming first lady Melania Trump has many asking, “What will Melania wear?” The interest in first ladies inaugural fashion has even puzzled some first ladies and their next of kin. In 1912 when ...

Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are ...