He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, fifes and drums — all traditional Revolutionary War iconography.

He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt ... Revolutionary War iconography. Those in attendance heard tunes deployed from the classic American songbook ...

As Callista and I sat in the Rotunda listening to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, I realized that it was among the most revolutionary inaugural addresses in American history.

Finally, the most revolutionary inaugural speech before 2025 was President Roosevelt ... to an American-centered foreign and defense policy is a decisive break with the post-Cold War effort ...

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In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have fought alongside George Washington.

A selection of British national newspaper front pages showing reaction to President Trump’s Inauguration in London, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025

The new defense secretary’s goals run counter to the military’s apolitical tradition and efforts to build a force that mirrors America.

Thomas Carlyle would have been impressed by Donald Trump. The author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) thought that history organised itself around great men the way that iron filings form patterns in a magnetic field.

He spent 14 days camping, fishing, and sightseeing. After two weeks in the Park, he rode the same gray horse to the gateway town of Gardiner, to a huge celebration.

On October 14, 1912, shortly before the presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt was shot at a campaign rally. The bullet was impeded by a copy of Roosevelt's speech and his glasses case.