America’s flinty, unpretentious 30th president was shaped by an austere upbringing in a Vermont hamlet out of time.

President Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first to be broadcast live on the radio. A lot has changed since then.

Mr. Biden's pardons in recent days come after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in ...

Trump's inauguration comes 100 years after Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 ceremony became the first to be broadcast nationally, via ...

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.

US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, the White House said Sunday, just hours before he cedes the Oval Office to Donald Trump.

The U.S. Constitution requires every president-elect to swear the Oath of Office—and that’s about it. “I do solemnly swear ...

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

On his final day in office, President Joe Biden pardoned several individuals, including a long-awaited posthumous pardon to ...

A day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden recognized how the black leaders he spoke to helped vault him to the Oval Office. "I owe you big,” he said.

President Biden issued five more pardons on Sunday on his last full day in office, including for political activist and Black ...