Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...

Two weeks after Jefferson Davis was proclaimed president of the Confederacy, President Abraham Lincoln addressed the nation at his inauguration. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be ...

President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...

MILWAUKEE — Wild game and root vegetables were on the official luncheon menu at Tuesday's presidential inauguration. Both are a nod to President Abraham Lincoln, who favored the simple frontier foods ...

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