The tradition of using a Bible during the swearing-in goes back to the very first inauguration, but not all Presidents have ...

Perhaps no president was more enigmatic than Calvin Coolidge ... boy than those I had,” Coolidge wrote in what historians consider, surprisingly, one of the best presidential memoirs.

The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show ...

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.

Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library, via Wikimedia Commons Because Trump ... John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, ...

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington D.C. for Thomas Jefferson’s 1801 oath of office, according to the National Library of ... time in 1923 when Calvin Coolidge was sworn in ...

Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library, via Wikimedia Commons Because Trump ... John Tyler, Millard ...

Truman Presidential Library) The interest in the Wild West during the 1950s ... added some Western fun to proceedings. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, had an audience of one ...

Photo by The Library of Congress. Witnessing the 60th presidential inauguration this past Monday, it is worth reflecting on a related historical moment from nearly a century ago. Republican President ...

In honor of the event, we thought we’d share some facts we found from the Library of Congress ... Riders who had charged San Juan Hill with him eight years earlier. • Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by ...