Photos of the inauguration show President Donald Trump's swearing-in with his hand at his side, not atop the Bible. Does the hand placement matter? Video above: President Donald Trump's inaugural ...

The distance between Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s inauguration felt further than the length of the Mall. It even felt further, somehow, than 160 years.

Donald Trump raised his right hand while placing his left hand on the Bible Monday afternoon. He then took the oath of office and was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

Americans do not have a king, but do not lack for guidance in the public invocation of religion. Abraham Lincoln showed the ...

President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do ...

which was used at Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inauguration. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts directed Mr. Trump to raise his right hand and repeat after him as Mrs. Trump was still approaching ...

What Trump did in his first inaugural speech was to paint a picture of a very dark reality, one that included not only “American carnage” but a landscape blighted by “rusted-out factories, scattered ...

It should be remembered as the "Golden Age of America" speech, but it will probably just be referenced as Trump’s Second Inaugural. It was Abraham Lincoln who borrowed from the Book of Proverbs ...

8. At Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865, Black men and women marched in the inaugural parade for the first time. 9. Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration was the largest attendance of any event ...