Craig Reinarman, professor of sociology, is teaching at UC-DC this quarter. On January 20, he was among the throngs who witnessed the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The next day, he sent this ...

1937 – Franklin Roosevelt takes the oath of the Presidency for the second time, but for the first time on January 20th. The 20th Amendment changed the date from March 4 to January 20 when it was ...

But on inauguration day, as it has been since the dawn of this country a short 230-some years ago, there will be a sense of beginning anew. Or at least for those first-term presidents, anyways. Of ...

Imagine Donald Trump wearing a top hat. He would have had to if his inauguration had been a few decades earlier, when the hat was required attire at the ceremony for the incoming president. Stream Los ...

(AP) The inauguration of a U.S. president is traditionally a highly scripted celebration, with seating charts, schedules, dress rehearsals and planning committees that map each moment of the ...