The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...

A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At ...

With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.

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Legal experts called President Biden's announcement that the 28th Amendment was officially law "cynical and irrelevant" as ...

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...

Last year, Trump and Greenwood teamed up for the “God Bless the USA Bible.” Printed in China, it is a King James Version ...

Forty years after Washinton’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

In his final speech from the Oval Office, President Biden urged the country to remember its roots and not surrender its ...

That amendment was passed in response to Franklin Roosevelt’s four elections to the presidency. Since George Washington had stepped down at the end of his second term, no president had sought a third ...

Kevin Butterfield is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Constitution is remarkably ...