By 1881, a joint resolution was passed as the city prepared for the inauguration of then-President-elect James A. Garfield. A Presidential Inaugural Committee was formed with a chairman appointed ...

For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the incoming president, with some noteworthy exceptions.

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington ... attorney” passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad station. Garfield would not ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

He was born in Virginia, but some say there is a case to be made that he should be considered an Ohio president.

While most inauguration ceremonies in the years since have taken place in Washington, not all of them have happened there. After President James Garfield was shot in 1881, then-Vice President ...

Virginians are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump's orders targeting the federal government workforce, with nearly ...

President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only president inaugurated in an unusual location.