From the powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, and Pierre Trudeau, to rallying calls during war, civil ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else. He ...

Editor: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is doubtless one of the greatest speeches in world history. Short yet poignant, the speech delivered over 150 years ago still calls out to us today. He ...

Kamala Harris closed out the final night of the Democratic National Convention by using her time at the podium to tell the story of her childhood, discuss her presidential aspirations and formally ...

“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Charlie Hunt, Boise State University (THE CONVERSATION) Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory ...

One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with ‘verbal tokens of unity.’ The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration ...